Raul and Chavez Attend Ceremony to Mark Decade of Bilateral Agreement CUBA, November 8, 2010.- The presidents of Cuba and Venezuela, Raul Castro and Hugo Chavez, respectively, are heading on Monday in this capital the ceremony to mark the 10th anniversary of the Comprehensive Cooperation Agreement between the two nations. The celebration takes place at Havana’s Convention Center, in which the signing by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro and Chavez himself of the first bilateral agreements for cooperation in various fields –that took place on October 30, 200 at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas- is recalled. On Sunday, during a television appearance from Havana, the Bolivarian leader stated that that aforementioned agreement has become a paradigm of cooperation between Latin American nations, in addition to having contributed to the economic and social development and the increase of the standard of living of his people, particularly of the dispossessed. Chavez recalled that, in sectors like health, education, industry, tourism, agriculture and food, Cuba has offered its help, and has also received over 23,000 Venezuelan patients with their relatives, while Venezuela sent the island “53,000 barrels of oil a day, that Cuba paid, because there was only a percentage, I insist, that was financed.” “We have fed ourselves mutually; each day the two countries help each other and we’ll continue to do so, more and more and in a better way, in order to achieve social and political stability,” asserted the Bolivarian head of state. (Cubaminrex-Cuban News Agency)
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