Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has told Cuban leaders that he would like to see closer ties between the Caribbean nation and Ireland, state media in Havana has said.
Mr Adams told Ana Maria Machado, the vice president of Cuba's legislature, that in Ireland there was plenty of solidarity with the Cuban people, the AIN news agency reported.
He also said he was ready to continue supporting Cuba's communist revolution with concrete actions, AIN said.
The news agency said Mr Adams was heading a group of Sinn Féin politicians, but did not say when he arrived or for how long they would stay.
Mr Adams visited Cuba in 2001.
In a statement he said he "was keen to return to discuss the dramatic and historic diplomatic and political developments that are occurring in US-Cuban relationships."
Ms Machado thanked the Irish visitors for "the gestures of solidarity" that they have had with the island, especially against the US trade embargo, in place since 1962, AIN said.
The United States and Cuba restored diplomatic ties in July after a five-decade stand-off, and the two countries have reopened their embassies. US trade sanctions, however, remain in place.
