Cuban President Raul Castro has said he will stand down at the end of his second term in 2018, following his re-election by the National Assembly.
Castro,formally assumed the presidency in 2008 - two years after replacing his ailing brother Fidel.
The Communist assembly, whose members ran for office unopposed, also chose Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez as Castro's first vice-president.
Diaz-Canel, is widely seen as Raul Castro's successor.
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