Cuban Communist Party Welcomes 7th Angolan MPLA Conference

The Cuban Communist Party (PCC) friendly welcomed today the 7th Ordinary Conference of the governing People''s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), which began on Wednesday in this capital.
It is an honor for me to be the bearer of the message by the PCC Central Committee to welcome this MMPLA conference, asserted Jose Ramon Balaguer, member of the Secretariat of that authority, who is leading the Cuban delegation to the meeting.

He said that Cuban and Angola had developed an exemplary relation of sisterhood and cooperation, based on mutual respect.

He recalled that in 1965, Commander Ernesto Che Guevara met with several members of the then national liberation movement in Brazzaville. MPLA founder was there, comrade Agostinho Neto, a man of progressive ideas and impeccable behavior and courage.

Since the beginning of the struggle, Neto knew that they would only reach independence from the Portuguese colonialism with an organization that could achieve consensus and support from the masses.

He asserted that this way, the MPLA became a key movement in the struggle against colonialism, managing to unite the efforts for the independence and make them coherent, above racial, ethnic or tribal prejudices, but also his strategy to fight motivated resistance in other Portuguese colonies to win their independence.

He highlighted that under the leadership of Jose Eduardo dos Santos, the MPLA has been the guarantor of the Angolan unity and independence.

Amid a prolonged applause, Balaguer said thew history of sisterhood between Cuba and Angola could not be written without mentioning the role played by the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro and Neto; President Raul Castro and Dos Santos.