Communist Party of Vietnam (PCV)’s general secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and Head of State Nguyen Xuan Phuc reiterated the will to strengthen the bilateral ties, in messages sent to the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and President Miguel Diaz-Canel.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Chairman of the National Assembly, Vuong Dinh Hue, did so in letters sent to their Cuban counterparts, Manuel Marrero and Esteban Lazo, respectively.
Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son congratulated his Cuban counterpart, Bruno Rodriguez.
On December 2, 1960, Cuba became the first Latin American country to establish diplomatic relations with Vietnam.
In this 61 years, the ties of friendship and cooperation between the two countries, forged in the times when Vietnam was fighting for its independence, have been in permanent development and are a paradigm on how the ties between the States should be.
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