Lam, who took office on May 22, will be the sixth Vietnamese leader to travel to the Caribbean nation in the last 15 years after Nguyen Minh Triet in 2009, Truong Tan Sang in 2015, Tran Dai Quang in 2016, Nguyen Phu Trong in 2018, and Nguyen Xuan Phuc in 2021.

Cuba will be the first country in the Western Hemisphere that the Vietnamese leader will travel to, and the second as a President of the Republic and General Secretary of the CPV after visiting China in August, a few weeks after being elected to lead the party’s organization.

To Lam’s upcoming visit to Cuba is seen as another sign of the determination to further strengthen and deepen the special and historic relations, and the solidarity, fraternity, comprehensive cooperation, and absolute trust between the two countries’ parties, governments, and peoples.

The Vietnamese top leader’s stay in Havana will coincide with the commemoration on September 25 of the 61st anniversary of the Cuban Committee for Solidarity with South Vietnam, the first of its kind in the world and the predecessor of the Cuban-Vietnamese Friendship Association.

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