YAZD In a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed by Iranian and Cuban officials here the Iranian city of Yazd and Cuba's Holguin have been named sister cities, it was announced here on Monday.

The MOU, signed by the two nations on the basis of their existing friendship and cooperation, aims to boost ties between residents of Yazd and Holguin cities and to prepare grounds for beneficial exchanges between the two cities.

The MOU was signed by the mayor of Yazd and the Head of the Holguin City Council, Ramon Diaz Alkantara.

During the signing ceremony Alkantara said that although Yazd and Holguin are thousands of kilometers away from each other, the views of their residents are as close as the views of Iranians and Cubans in general, and gives added impetus to expansion of ties and the sense of unity existing between the two countries.

The governor general of the central Province of Yazd and Cuban Ambassador to Tehran Dariv Deo Dera also attended the signing ceremony.

It was the second such experience for Yazd because it had earlier been named a sister city to a Hungarian city.

(IRNA)