THE presidents of Cuba and Zimbabwe, Fidel Castro and Robert
                   Mugabe, had official talks today to define and extend bilateral
                   cooperation.

                   Mugabe arrived on the island on Monday night, on his seventh visit to
                   the island.

                   Cuba and Zimbabwe established diplomatic relations in April 1980,
                   and bilateral cooperation has steadily grown since then.

                   Some 120 Cuban doctors and health professionals are currently
                   working in that African nation, supporting programs in the most
                   depressed regions.

                   Dozens of young Zimbabweans are enrolled on Cuban government
                   scholarships at the Latin American Medical School, which has more
                   than 5,000 students from all five continents.

                   Mugabe, who is in Havana until Friday, affirmed that he came to the
                   island in the spirit of friendship that characterizes relations between
                   the two countries.

                   Ghanaian Foreign Minister Hackman Owusu Agyeman, likewise on an
                   official visit to Cuba, has met with his counterpart Felipe Pérez Roque
                   and Marta Lomas, minister for foreign investment and economic
                   cooperation.