Cuba, Paraguay Foreign Ministers Meet. CUBA, August 26t, 2010.- Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez and Paraguay's Hector Lacognata are meeting on Thursday to discuss bilateral relations. The two will discuss cooperation agreements, the celebration of the Bicentennial of Latin America's Independence, and the multilateral agenda, as well as other issues, according to a note from the Paraguayan Foreign Ministry. During his stay, Lacognata is also scheduled to meet with Cuban Parliament President Ricardo Alarcon, to tackle aspects of the regional integration process. The Paraguayan diplomat will visit the Latin American School of Medicine and meet with Paraguayan students there. Cuban and Paraguay established diplomatic relations in 1902, but they were broken off on September 5, 1960, and later reestablished at a consular level on August 1, 1996, and at a diplomatic level on November 8, 1999. Links are currently friendly and cooperative. Some 21 Cuban collaborators are now working in Paraguay, 18 of them as part of Operation Miracle, a program that provides free treatment of eye afflictions. (Cubaminrex - PL) |