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Havana, 16 May (EFE) .- The President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, ordered this Monday an official mourning for the death of the President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who died in the Age died of 73 on May 13.
During the duel, ordered from 6 a.m. to 12 p.m. on May 17, the Cuban flag must be flown at half-mast in public buildings and military installations, according to a statement released by the island’s official media.
On the same day that President Khalifa died, the Cuban government extended its condolences to the UAE people and government.
Khalifa has ruled the Emirates since 2004, but a stroke in 2014 forced him to retire from the public stage, and since then the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi had taken the reins of the Persian Gulf country.
Cuba and the UAE established ambassadorial-level diplomatic relations in 2002.
In 2015, UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan opened his country’s embassy in Cuba and signed an aviation agreement with the Caribbean country, official media reported.
In the same year, both nations held their first bilateral economic forum in Dubai with the support of Cuban Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investments Rodrigo Malmierca. EFE
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