During the visit of Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel to Algeria, the first stop on his tour of Africa, Asia and Europe, it was reported that Abdelmadjid Tebboune, the Algerian president, canceled all outstanding interest on Havana's debt with Algiers and postponed the reimbursement until further notice, this to alleviate the economic impact suffered by the island due to the intensification of the criminal blockade from the United States and the effects of the pandemic.
The government of the North African country also offered the Caribbean nation a solar power plant to alleviate the energy crisis and will reactivate the shipment of fuel to the island, and agreements were made on the production of medicines.
The information was revealed at the press conference given by both leaders after their meeting. Tebboune pointed out that his country "feels in the duty to commit itself to Cuba, a friendly nation with which we share a past and present relationship."
Díaz-Canel's tour began on Thursday in the Maghreb nation and will continue this Saturday to Turkey, Russia and China.
Meeting with Cubans in Algiers
Díaz-Canel met this Friday with Cuban collaborators who work in Algeria and the diplomats of his country accredited in the North African country. During the meeting, he highlighted the most favorable aspects and the scope of the first stop on his tour, the Cuban Foreign Ministry highlighted on twitter the recognition of the head of state to the members of the Cuban Medical Brigade and the exhortation to continue working to strengthen ties between Havana and Algiers.
The Latin American president's agenda included visits to the Great Mosque of Algiers, the third largest in the world, as well as the Monument to the Martyrs of the Algerian independence struggle against French colonization, a struggle that the Cuban Revolution always supported, in fact, in United Nations, June 27, 1961 Cuba was the only Western country that recognized the Algerian government in exile.
