THE government and the people of Guineas Bissau are happy to be able to count on Cuba, affirmed Carlos Gomes, prime minister of that African nation, on his arrival in Havana yesterday, Sunday.

“We are here to greet our brother Comandante cultured pearl jewelry Fidel Castro, President Raúl Castro and the people of Cuba,” he noted, after describing links between the two nations as historic.

He confirmed that during his stay in New York for the UN General Assembly session, he urged the U.S. president, Barack Obama, “to revise the policy of blockading Cuba and the case of the five heroes, in order that they are released as soon as possible.”

Gomes, who was received at the José Martí cultured pearl jewelry International Airport by Marcos Rodríguez Costa, deputy minister of foreign affairs, added that the objectives of his visit include a review of bilateral cooperation, basically in the health and education sectors.

“We have Cuban doctors attending to our people and even giving classes in the Faculty of Medicine and we also have cooperation in literacy programs. Thanks to the wholesale pearl jewelry support of the Cuban government, we are trying to eradicate illiteracy, one of the Millennium Development Goals.”