This was done speaking in Havana from the rostrum VII Summit of the Association of Caribbean States (AEC). The meeting, which began on Thursday, involving the presidents and foreign ministers of 25 countries AEC.
The theme of the summit of the Association of Caribbean States, which currently chairs the Cuba, are the effects of the deepening economic and social crisis, and global climate change on the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Right Cuban allows the exercise by the President two consecutive five-year mandates. Raul Castro formally took over the top job in the country in February 2008, after the resignation of his brother Fidel, who in 2006 became seriously ill.
Fidel Castro actually ruled Cuba since January 1, 1959 to 2006, although the first president lawyer Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, he held this position from 1959 to 1976 years.
Addressing the participants of the meeting in Havana, Raul Castro assured that the family Castro is “strong and long-lived”; joked that although he could stay in office “a few more five years”, it will end its mandate on time.
Fidel Castro on August 13 this year completes 90 years.
In the media in Latin America as probable successor Raul Castro as president of Cuba cited most often is the first vice-president of the Cuban Council of State Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez. He has 56 years. Trained as an engineer-electronics. Is the function of 2013.
For many years he was avoiding publicity activist state and party. Since 2009 he was the minister of higher education, from 2012 Deputy Prime Minister. Education, science and culture, and in 2013 became the first deputy prime minister and first deputy chairman of the State Council.
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