3 Dec 2009

Tonga's Sevele meets Cuban leaders in Havana

3:07 pm on 3 December 2009

Tonga's prime minister, Dr Feleti Sevele, has met Cuban leaders during a visit to Havana.

The Cuban news agency says after meeting the First Vice-president of the Cuban Councils of State and Ministers, Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, Dr Sevele expressed his satisfaction with his first Cuba visit, highlighting the work of Cuban voluntary workers in the world .

Cuba's First Vice-president thanked Tonga for its favourable vote for the Cuban resolution against the economic, financial and commercial

blockade imposed by the government of the United States against Cuba for almost five decades.