East Timor President Thanks Cuba for its Solidarity

“This visit is to greet and thank President Raul Castro, Commander in Chief Fidel Castro and the Cuban government for all the help they have given us”

Ramos-Horta said he plans to talk with the med students from his country that will return after a successful training in Cuba.

In the last two years our Medicine students have returned to our country to gain in experience from local reality, he added

“Our country is like a small Cuban village, very similar, therefore coming to study to Cuba and return doesn’t cause a any cultural conflict”

In September 2009, the first 18 student group arrived in Dili, East Timor capital, after training for six years in Cuban universities

They joined efforts with a Cuban 193-member medical brigade working in East Timor, as part of a cooperation program started in 2004, which has taken over 700 Cuban health professionals to the Asian country.