Chinese president winds up visit to Cuba
24/11/2004 11:08
Chinese President Hu Jintao left in Havana for home Tuesday after
concluding his two-day state visit to Cuba.
During his visit, Hu, who
arrived in Havana on Monday, held talks with Cuban leader Fidel Castro and other
officials on bilateral relations and major international issues.
While
expressing their satisfaction over bilateral ties, the two sides agreed to work
together to expand mutually-beneficial cooperation, especially in the fields of
economy and trade.
China and Cuba also signed agreements on cooperation in
plant quarantine, bio-technology, education and economy.
China and Cuba
established full diplomatic relations in 1960. Their two-way trade has been
about US$400 million annually over the past three years, with that in the first
nine months of this year reaching US$401 million or up 36.7 percent year-on-
year.
Cuba is the last leg of Hu's Latin America trip. He had visited Brazil,
Argentina and Chile, where he attended the annual Economic Leaders' Meeting of
the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum.
Xinhua
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