Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what meetings he had with representatives of the Cuban government during his visit to Cuba in April 2016.
The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my Rt Hon. Friend the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr Hammond) was the first British Foreign Secretary to visit Cuba since 1959. During his visit the Foreign Secretary met Raúl Castro, President of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ricardo Cabrisas, Vice-President, and Rodrigo Malmierca, Minister for Foreign Trade and Investment. The Foreign Secretary also met representatives from Cuba’s civil society.