Havana, Dec 3 (Prensa Latina) Cuban and Bolivia signed five bilateral cooperation agreements at the end of a visit by Bolivian Foreign Minister Juan Ignacio Siles del Valle.

The agreements resulted from official talks between Siles and his Cuban counterpart, Felipe Pérez Roque, who signed three of the accords.

Siles also inked a deal with Cuban Public Health Minister José Ramón Balaguer. The cooperation agreement will lay the foundations for Cuba to provide medical care to Bolivian children from low-income families.

The head of Bolivian diplomacy also penned an accord with Higher Education Minister Fernando Vecino to homologate studies and degrees granted by institutes, technical and technological schools, and universities from the two countries.

That, for example, would make it easier for some 150 Bolivian youths who will graduate as doctors from the Latin American School of Medicine next year to work in their country. More than 600 Bolivians are studying in Cuba.

At the end of the signing ceremony, Pérez Roque said that the agreements are transcendental, because they strongly boost bilateral ties and brotherhood between the two peoples who respect and admire each other.

The Cuban foreign minister pointed out that Siles and his delegation held a long cordial meeting with President Fidel Castro, to whom they conveyed salutations from Bolivian President Carlos Mesa.