Visiting Colombian Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin and her Cuban counterpart Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla on Wednesday agreed to promote the tie between the two countries in a variety of fields.

“We are confident that Holguin’s visit will contribute to boost, in a satisfactory way, our bilateral relations,” Rodriguez told reporters at the end of Holguin’s visit to this island country.

He said the two ministers had discussed ways to strengthen bilateral relations in economy, trade, tourism, investment, scientific exchange, culture, sports, among others.

He thanked Colombia for its “traditional support” at the UN General Assembly of member countries, where Bogota for years has voted in favor of demanding U.S. stoppage of its decades-long economic embargo against Cuba.

Rodriguez wished Colombia well in its domestic efforts to achieve a peaceful end to the more than 40 years of armed conflict that is still hurting millions of Colombian civilians.

Both ministers also expressed their support to the recently formed Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, which was formally created in Venezuela at the end of 2011, saying it represented “a great opportunity” for regional integration.