Jaka M. Mwambi, Deputy Secretary General of the Tanzanian party Chama Cha Mapinduzi, wished a prompt recovery for President Fidel Castro, convalescent from complicated intestinal surgery.

“The name of Fidel Castro is great in Tanzania, and our country loves him as much as Cubans,” stated the leader during a meeting held Monday with representatives from the Cuban-African Friendship Association at the island’s Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP).

The delegation, visiting the Caribbean nation since February 11, was welcomed by ICAP vice president Buenaventura Reyes and Cuban-African Friendship Association president Rodolfo Puenteferro.

“Relations between the two States,” Mwambi noted, “are excellent, because they started from the personal friendship between Presidents Julius Nyerere and Fidel Castro, strengthened by Cuba’s support for independence of several African peoples.”

Visitors also met with members of the Cuban-African Friendship Association and praised a statue of Julius Nyerere, by eminent Cuban sculptor Alberto Lescay, which will be placed in the capital s African Leaders Park.

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