BEIJING, May 8 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Defence Minister Cao Gangchuan left
Beijing on Tuesday for official good-will visits to Cuba, Argentina, Chile and
Greece.
The visits of Cao, also vice chairman of the Central Military Commission
and state councilor, are at the invitations of Cuban Defense Minister Raul
Castro, Argentinean Defense Minister Nilda Garre, Chile's Minister of National
Defense Jose Goni and Greek Defense Minister Evangelos-Vassilios Meimarakis.