Putin meets Diaz-Canell during his first visit to Moscow

Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Moscow with Miguel Díaz-Canel, Cuban President, who first visits the Russian capital.

This meeting will be held in Moscow on the day that Washington announced new economic restrictions on Cuban military or intelligence services entities.

"We want to strengthen Cuban unchanged policy towards Russia," Diaz-Canel said on Friday morning, according to the Russian state agency TASS.

Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, also welcomed "friendship and cooperation with Cuba." The same Peskov said on Thursday: "Russia tries to maintain these relations with Cuba and will do its utmost to improve them."

The legacy of the Communist past Russia maintains very good relations with Cuba and opposed the decision by US President Donald Trump to turn Obama back to Washington against Washington.

The Cuban President, replacing Raúl Castro in a historic heritage in April, arrived in Moscow on Thursday with Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez and other Cuban leaders.

Diaz-Canel's visit to Moscow is part of an international tour that will take you to North Korea, China, Vietnam and Laos.

The Cuban President met in Paris with French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe last Wednesday.

Diaz-Canel and Putin try to strengthen economic and trade relations, said Peskov.

Military cooperation is also on the agenda of the meeting, explained the Kremlin spokesman, who refused to give more details on this issue.

During the Cuban visit this week Prime Minister Yuriy Borisov said that the agreements to be signed in Moscow during the visit of Diaz-Canel included a project that modernizes the Cuban rail service.

Diaz-Canel will also meet Dmitry Medvedev with Russian Prime Minister and Patriarch of the Royal Russian Orthodox Church, who co-operated with Pope Paul two years ago at the Cuban Ceremony.

Former Cuban President Raúl Castro traveled to Moscow in 2015, while Putin made a Cuban visit to several Latin American countries in 2014.