Hezbollah delegation visits Cuba, Venezuela, meets officials

Hezbollah delegation visits Cuba, Venezuela, meets officials
July 11, 2012 04:13 PM
The Daily Star

BEIRUT: A Hezbollah delegation visited Cuba and Venezuela last week and
met with a number of parliamentarians and officials, the party's press
office said Wednesday.

The visit came in response to an official invitation by the head of
International Relations Division of the Central Committee of the Cuban
Communist Party, José Ramon Balaguer.

At one point, the delegation, which comprised Loyalty to the Resistance
Party MP Nawwar Sahili and head of Hezbollah's International Relations
Department Ammar Musawi, visited the Santa Clara tomb of Ernesto "Che"
Guevara, the Argentinean Marxist revolutionary icon, where they laid a
wreath.

Musawi was quoted by the Hezbollah press office as having praised the
"Cuban experience in resisting American hegemony," which he held up as
"a model for all countries and peoples in how to challenge policies of
hegemony, arrogance and plunder."

The Hezbollah official also commended Cuba's historical stances in
defending the Arabs' rights in their conflict with the "Zionist enemy"
and the country's support for the Palestinian cause.

He also participated in the Sao Paolo gathering for international
leftist parties and forces in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 3 and 4, in
which many issues of international concern were discussed.

Musawi met with several participants, including Venezuelan Vice-Minister
for Foreign Affairs David Velasquez, with whom the Hezbollah MP
discussed his party's view of regional development and what he described
as the "vicious attack on Syria."

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