 |
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
| Fidel Castro resigns from Cuba party leadership |
| Havana, 19.04.2011 |
|
| 19 April 2011 | 09:11 | FOCUS News Agency
Havana. Fidel Castro confirmed he had resigned from the top leadership of the Cuba Communist Party in an article published on Tuesday, after the party approved a raft of economic reforms, AFP reported.
"Raul knew that I would not accept a formal role in the party today," Castro said in an article on the Cubadebate.cu portal, referring to his brother Raul and his own absence from the party's new Central Committee, elected on Monday.
Castro, 84, had served as first secretary in the Central Committee of the party -- which underpins the country's Communist government -- since the party's creation in 1965.
Fidel said he had handed over the functions of the party head to Raul when he ceded power to his brother because of his own declining health in 2006, though he retained the first secretary title.
"(Raul) has always been who I described as First Secretary and Commander in Chief," Fidel wrote in the article.
"He never failed to convey to me the ideas that were planned," he added.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Address : Euro-Brew Ltd., Hlboká 22, 917 01 Trnava, Slovakia
Tel. : +421 33 53 418 53, Fax : +421 33 53 418 52, E-mail : info@eurobrew.sk |
|
|
