UN Chief Meets With Fidel Castro in Havana
UN Chief Meets With Fidel Castro in Havana
UNITED NATIONS January 28, 2014 (AP)
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has met with former Cuban leader Fidel Castro in Havana.
Ban's office tweeted that the two met for about 55 minutes Tuesday. The U.N. chief is in Cuba for a summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.
The U.N. office said it would provide details on the meeting shortly.
Ban met Monday with Cuban President Raul Castro, the younger brother of Fidel. Ban's office said the two discussed the U.S. embargo on Cuba and the human rights situation on the island.
Ban's office says it's his first visit to Cuba.
In her own tweet, Washington's U.N. ambassador, Samantha Power, urged world leaders visiting Cuba to meet with "everyday Cubans" and independent groups "to learn what's really happening & support democratic change."
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Castro holds court in Cuba as Argentina's Cristina Kirchner stops by for a friendly pre-summit chat as pictures scotch rumours they are both ill
By Ted Thornhill
PUBLISHED: 06:26 EST, 28 January 2014 | UPDATED: 13:42 EST, 28 January 2014
The Argentine presidency released photographs of a lunchtime encounter between President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro, showing that they’re both in relatively good health.
Kirchner also published them on her official Twitter account.
‘We talked about everything, but above all a symbol of the meeting of all Latin America and the Caribbean in Havana. ... Yes, of course we talked about Hugo too. A lot. Indelible memories,’ her Twitter feed said.
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The lunchtime meeting came ahead of a meeting between foreign ministers from 33 Latin American and Caribbean nations on Monday in the Cuban capital for a summit of Western Hemisphere countries minus the United States and Canada.
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Fidel Castro 'talked a lot' during meeting, Brazil's Rousseff says
HAVANA Tue Jan 28, 2014 8:49pm EST
Jan 28 (Reuters) - Fidel Castro was lucid, displayed a sharp memory and "talked a lot," Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said on Tuesday of her two-hour meeting with the former Cuban president.
Rousseff met Castro, 87, on Monday during her visit to Cuba for a Latin American and Caribbean summit. She said Castro discussed his contemporaries, such as former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, and historical figures such as Napoleon.
Castro has rarely been seen in public since he took ill in 2006 and handed over power to his younger brother Raul Castro, at first provisionally in 2006 and then definitively in 2008.
"He talked a lot," Rousseff said of Fidel Castro, who was famous for lengthy speeches in his younger days, such as the time in 1960 when he told the United Nations General Assembly "we shall endeavor to be brief," then spoke for a record four-and-a-half hours.
"He is well, wholesome, lucid," Rousseff said. "It's very interesting because a person who lived through such an important moment in world history personally knew a lot of things, and he has an excellent memory, telling stories."
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