Havana, March 14 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez reiterated today the island’s government’s willingness to strengthen its ties with Burkina Faso, which will celebrate their 50th anniversary in 2025.
According to the Cuban head of diplomacy on the social network X, he expressed the government’s intentions during a meeting with the chancellor of that African nation, Jean Marie Traoré.
He also expressed the island’s authorities’ satisfaction “with the good state of bilateral cooperation” between the two nations that have maintained official relations since December 11, 1965.
Rodríguez arrived in Burkina Faso this Friday for an official visit, during which he plans to hold meetings with Burkina Faso authorities, with the aim of strengthening relations between the two nations.
In addition to his counterpart, a meeting with President Ibrahim Traoré and Prime Minister Rimtalba Jean-Emmanuel Ouédraogo is also on the agenda, Cuban ambassador to Ouagadougou Nadieska Navarro told Prensa Latina.
He will also meet with the Burkina-Cuba Fraternity collective, which brings together political parties and civil society organizations involved in solidarity activities with the Caribbean island.
This meeting, the diplomat specified, “will take place at the symbolic memorial dedicated to the African country’s revolutionary hero, Thomas Sankara, who was a close friend of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro.”
The Caribbean country’s foreign minister will also meet with members of the medical brigade in the capital of Burkina Faso and members of the Cuban diplomatic mission in that West African state.
Bruno Rodríguez began a tour of African nations on March 10, which took him to South Africa and Ethiopia before stopping in Ouagadougou, and includes visits to Nigeria, Ghana, and Senegal.
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