Fidel and Raúl receive commemorative medal for the 50 years of the MINREX

The commemorative medal 50 anniversary of the foundation of the Ministry of External Relationships (MINREX) were granted this Wednesday to the Boss of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro Ruz, to the General of Army Raúl Castro Ruz, president of the Council of State and of Secretaries, and posthumously to the Commandant of the Revolution Juan Almeida Bosque, in act made in the Universal Room of the FAR, in the Cuban capital.

Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, chancellor of the Island, gave the badge to Raúl and put in the Cuban president's hands those assigned to Fidel and Almeida.

"We have had the privilege of having the leadership of which has been guide and driver of the foreign policy revolutionary, the Commandant in Boss Fidel Castro Ruz who with his clear and universal thought, his ethics and solid principles, the opponent's deep knowledge,his unquestionable olfaction to define the tactical thing and the strategic thing, has guided us", Rodríguez Parrilla said.

He also remembered the brilliant executorship to the front of the MINREX, during his first 17 years, of the missing Raúl Roa García, baptized by his town as "the Chancellor of the Dignity."

He made allusion also to the feather and wisdom of Carlos Rafael Rodríguez, another of the revolutionary leaders with unquestionable contribution to the foreign policy of the Revolution until his decese.

In his speech the boss of the Cuban diplomacy highlighted the trajectory of the workers of the organism beside his town, in all the tasks of the nation and in the confrontation of the aggressions suffered by the Native one and also in those perpetrated against them in the exterior during the exercise of his work.

In the 388 workers' representation of more than 25 years of work in the MINREX, was imposed them the Medal for the five decades of creation from the organism to 16 of its founders.

In the veiled that was livened up by noted groups and artists, were also, the heroine of the Moncada, Melba Hernández, family of the Five Cuban antiterrorist Heroes, prisoners wrongly in United States and political leaders and of the State.