Adams and Cuban foreign minister to hold meeting
Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams will today round off his visit to Cuba with a meeting with the country’s foreign minister Felipe Perez Roque.
The West Belfast MP, who yesterday unveiled a memorial to 10 republican hunger strikers, was also due to visit a paediatric hospital as well as undertaking a tour of Old Havana.
Mr Adams’ meeting with Senor Roque will be the last he will have with a high ranking Cuban Government official following his encounter with Cuban president Fidel Castro.
Senor Roque will meet the Sinn Fein leader for the first time since he revealed that one of three Irishmen detained in Colombia on suspicion of training left-wing guerrillas was Sinn Fein’s representative in Cuba.
Mr Adams was forced in October to admit that Niall Connolly was indeed Sinn Fein’s representative despite the party’s original denial when he was arrested in August along with Martin McCauley and James Monaghan.
The Sinn Fein leader, who has been accompanied to Cuba by North Belfast Assembly member Gerry Kelly, will also meet the Cuban press before leaving the country.
It will be his first formal press conference since Sinn Fein was granted the use of House of Commons’ facilities following a vote in Westminster last night.
