HAVANA, September 18 (RIA Novosti) - Russian warships are expected to pay another visit to Cuba as part of military cooperation between Moscow and Havana, the chief of Russia's General Staff said on Friday.
Gen. Nikolai Makarov arrived in Cuba on a working visit on Monday, met with President Raul Castro and the country's military leadership, and visited several military installations.
"We are currently preparing a plan for the ships' visit," Makarov said. "Undoubtedly, it would be closely linked to our military cooperation with the Republic of Cuba."
He did not disclose the exact date of the visit.
During the last December's Caribbean tour, Russia's Admiral Chabanenko destroyer, escorted by the Ivan Bubnov tanker and the SB-406 rescue tug, visited Havana for the first time since the Cold War.
Cuban-Russian military ties were drastically scaled down after Russia's surprise close of an electronic listening post in Lourdes in 2001. However, military ties have been improving since the visit of Russian Security Council chief Nikolai Patrushev and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin in July last year.
