HAVANA.- Wang Yi, China's Minister of Foreign Affairs, said in Beijing that the upcoming state visit of Miguel Diaz-Canel, President of the Councils of State and Ministers of Cuba, will give continuity to the road traveled on bilateral ties and project long-term ones.

Prensa Latina reported that upon receiving Ricardo Cabrisas, vice-president of the Council of Ministers of Cuba, Wang assured that the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, attaches high importance to this trip, which is scheduled for early November.

Diaz-Canel will arrive in China as part of his first tour of Asian and European countries after taking office last April. Before that, he was in China in 2013 and 2015.

PL adds that Wang also reiterated China's support for Cuba in its just struggle to defend national sovereignty and described the close friendship between the two countries as indestructible.

Cabrisas thanked the invariable position of the Government of China against the economic, commercial and financial blockade that the United States imposed on Cuba almost six decades ago.

He emphasized that the Caribbean nation welcomes with sympathy the initiative of the Belt and Road initiative, as well as its extension to Latin America and the Caribbean.

During that meeting the parties discussed the development of bilateral ties and noted with satisfaction that the sustained exchange of high-level visits promoted dialogue and mutual political trust.

They also agreed that the ties between Cuba and China will continue to be consolidated as an example of cooperation between two socialist countries on the basis of equality, respect and mutual benefit.

The agenda of Cabrisasincluded talks this Thursday with the head of Commerce and co-chairman of the Cuban-Chinese Intergovernmental Commission for Economic and Commercial Relations, Zhong Shan; directors of different banking institutions, insurance companies and local companies.

In this way, he closed a working visit to China that began on the 21st.