In a statement, the agency said Lavrov would meet with Díaz-Canel and Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla.
The head of Russian diplomacy thus ends a trip that began in Brazil on Monday and then took him to Venezuela and Nicaragua.
Meeting in Managua this Wednesday with President Daniel Ortega, both minimized the impact of sanctions imposed on their nations by the United States.
While in Caracas on Tuesday, Lavrov called for “joining forces” against “blackmail” by Western sanctions against nations with left-wing governments in the region.
Moscow has been subject to sanctions by the United States, Canada and the European Union since invading Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
And Cuba has been suffering for more than 60 years from Washington’s economic embargo, which has been tightened since Donald Trump came to power in 2017, without his successor Joe Biden having reversed these sanctions.
Díaz-Canel, whose country is grappling with its worst economic crisis in thirty years, traveled to Russia in late November as part of an international tour that also took him to Algeria, Turkey and China.
At the end of the trip, he said he had signed several oil supply agreements with Russia and Algeria.
However, fuel shortages persist on the island. Last week, the President explained that the fuel shortages were due to the fact that the countries supplying Cuba with crude oil were also facing “a complex energy situation” and had failed to meet their commitments.
At the end of December, Cuba announced that Moscow and Havana wanted to strengthen their “strategic partnership” in 2023.
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