Russian oil firm Rosneft's CEO Igor Sechin met with Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel late on Saturday, the island's leader said, amid an acute fuel shortage that has service stations temporarily shuttered and hours-long gasoline queues.
Sechin told Diaz-Canel that, when it comes to issues related to Cuba, "Putin supervises them directly and personally", Diaz-Canel's office said in a statement released via Twitter.
Several tweets on Cuba's Presidency account emphasized the good relations between the two countries, but did not specify the reason for the visit by the state-run oil firm's boss. Sechin is set to travel to Venezuela for the tenth anniversary of the death of the South American country's former president Hugo Chavez, a close ally of both Cuba and Russia.
Cuba's former leader Raul Castro has also flown to Caracas for the occasion, Cuban state-run media said.
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