President Hassan Rouhani of Islamic Republic of Iran, who paid a two day visit to Havana at the formal invitation of his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro, left the Caribbean island nation on Tuesday for NY where he will attend the 71st Regular Session of the United Nations General Assembly.
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Rouhani received military honors at the presidential palace before holding a private meeting with Castro where the two leaders discussed the good relations between Cuba and Iran and agreed to further boost cooperation and exchanges between the two nations.
Monday’s sit-down with Fidel Castro was an unusual encounter since Cuba’s 90-year-old retired president receives only a few people.
The official press said that Rohani and Fidel agreed “in their analysis of the complexity of the worldwide situation” and talked about “the dangers to the preservation of peace”.
The two presidents also witnessed the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding for Cooperation in the fields of health, research, education, medicine and medical technology.
Rouhani is on a one-day official visit to Cuba.
Last month, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif visited the island.
He called on the Iran-Cuba economic commission to follow up on the previously-singed bilateral agreements to deepen mutual economic relations.
Rohani said ahead of the one-day Cuba visit that he wanted to stop in the communist island, a “friendly and revolutionary country”, on his way to the UN General Assembly in NY.
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He made the remarks Saturday evening in a meeting with the Bolivian President Evo Morales on the sidelines of the 17th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) held here in northern Venezuela.
