Vietnam affirms its want to proceed inheriting and selling the precious legacy of family members with Cuba at the forged basis pioneered through President Ho Chi Minh and Commander-in-Leader Fidel Castro.
Following his operating go back and forth to the United Countries and america, Common Secretary and President To Lam and his spouse paid a state discuss with to the Republic of Cuba on the invitation of First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Birthday celebration of Cuba and President of the Republic of Cuba Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez and his spouse.
Going down within the context of the 2 international locations celebrating the sixty fifth anniversary of the established order of diplomatic family members (December 2, 1960 – December 2, 2025), this discuss with is a testomony to the normal harmony and particular friendship between Vietnam and Cuba that has all the time been regarded as a treasured asset that has been nurtured through the Birthday celebration, State and humans of the 2 international locations, whilst demonstrating Vietnam’s excessive regard for Cuba and Cuba’s place in Vietnam’s international coverage.
First Secretary of the Communist Birthday celebration of Cuba and President Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez receives Minister of Public Safety To Lam all through his authentic discuss with to Cuba in 2022. (Photograph: Mai Phuong/VNA)
Greater than 6 many years of affection and affection
Traditionally, Cuba used to be the primary nation within the Western Hemisphere to determine complete diplomatic family members with Vietnam on December 2, 1960. The relationship of the noble modern beliefs of the generation, the fight for independence, freedom and nationwide liberation has created sympathy and figuring out between the 2 countries part an international aside, making a bond that has long past via 64 years of historic ups and downs, surpassing the boundaries and standard laws in global family members.
The harmony and brotherhood between Vietnam and Cuba used to be based through President Ho Chi Minh and President Fidel Castro and has been rising. All the way through the years when the Vietnamese humans waged the resistance warfare for nationwide liberation within the Sixties and Nineteen Seventies, Cuba used to be all the time an emblem and a pace-setter on this planet humans’s motion to unite in improve of Vietnam’s simply fight, giving Vietnam treasured and efficient improve and help.
Cuba used to be the primary Latin American nation to determine diplomatic family members with the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (December 2, 1960), the primary nation on this planet to acknowledge the Nationwide Liberation Entrance of South Vietnam and settle for the Entrance’s Resident Consultant Delegation (July 1962), identify the Committee for Cohesion with South Vietnam (September 25, 1963), diplomatically acknowledge the Nationwide Liberation Entrance of South Vietnam (December 20, 1965); appoint an Ambassador to the Central Committee of the Nationwide Liberation Entrance (March 1969)…
All the way through essentially the most tough length of Vietnam’s nationwide liberation fight, the Birthday celebration, State and humans of Cuba all the time gave Vietnam extraordinarily treasured improve and help, each spiritually and materially. Subject material existence used to be nonetheless missing in each approach, however it’s estimated that all through the ones fierce warfare years, Cuba helped Vietnam with tens of 1000’s of lots of sugar and offered that sugar for foreign currency echange to ship to the Nationwide Liberation Entrance of South Vietnam. The Vietnamese humans all the time take into accout the immortal phrases of Cuban chief Fidel Castro:For Vietnam, Cuba is prepared to sacrifice its blood.”
For its phase, Vietnam has all the time actively bolstered harmony and brotherly love and strived to advertise and strengthen the effectiveness of complete cooperation between the 2 Events and two international locations. Leaders of the 2 Events and two States have time and again emphasised that the connection between the 2 international locations is a “image of the days”. Over the last 60 years, regardless of many demanding situations and ups and downs on this planet state of affairs, the harmony and brotherhood between Vietnam and Cuba has been more and more consolidated and advanced, intently related in lots of fields. Lately, the Events, States and humans of the 2 international locations all the time connect significance to the normal harmony and particular friendship between Vietnam and Cuba and proceed to nurture and increase it neatly via all channels.
Cuban President Fidel Castro sees off High Minister Vo Van Kiet in Havana, finishing his discuss with to Cuba, July 10, 1993. (Photograph: Minh Dao/VNA)
In line with Cuban Ambassador to Vietnam Orlando Nicolas Hernandez Guillen, throughout the ups and downs of historical past, Vietnam and Cuba have all the time stood aspect through aspect, supporting and serving to every different in essentially the most tough instances. Those are sturdy evidences of the particular brotherly friendship between two peoples part an international aside. The connection between the 2 events has deepened, taking part in a political basis, guiding the advance of family members between the 2 international locations. The 2 aspects take care of bilateral contacts and delegation exchanges in any respect ranges, particularly high-level ones.
Vietnamese Ambassador to Cuba Le Quang Lengthy stated that since 2020, there were greater than 20 delegation exchanges between provinces, towns, and political-social organizations of the 2 international locations, with cultural, instructional and scientific change techniques. Particularly, all through the Covid-19 pandemic, when Cuba used to be nonetheless underneath embargo, Vietnam despatched to Cuba many necessary medications and items to serve the prevention and struggle in opposition to Covid-19. Cuba additionally despatched to Vietnam many sorts of medications produced with high-tech manufacturing traces and thousands and thousands of doses of vaccines produced through Cuba.
In 2023, the 2 international locations arranged many significant actions to have a good time necessary occasions: 60 years since Cuba established the Committee for Cohesion with South Vietnam (September 25, 1963 – September 25, 2023), the predecessor of nowadays’s Cuba-Vietnam Friendship Affiliation; 50 years since chief Fidel Castro first visited Vietnam and went to the Liberated Zone of South Vietnam (September 1973 – 2023)…
In July 2024, Cuba declared a three-day nationwide mourning length (July 20-22, 2024) to commemorate and despatched Nationwide Meeting Chairman Esteban Lazo Hernandez to pay his respects to Common Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong. Up to now, the Birthday celebration, State and humans of Vietnam had been very moved when the Cuban Nationwide Meeting, all through its plenary consultation on July 19, 2024 – the day Common Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong passed on to the great beyond – seen a minute of silence and introduced a three-day nationwide mourning length. Those had been extraordinarily trustworthy gestures, stuffed with friendship simplest between comrades and brothers…
Recently, the 2 international locations have additionally successfully carried out the mechanisms of the Intergovernmental Cooperation Committee, Protection Coverage Discussion on the Deputy Minister of Protection point; Political Session on the Deputy Minister of International Affairs point… The 2 international locations’ Nationwide Assemblies additionally held the primary assembly of the Vietnam-Cuba Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation Committee to put into effect the Cooperation Protocol between the Nationwide Meeting of Vietnam and the Nationwide Meeting of the Other folks’s Executive of Cuba signed in April 2023.
The leaders of the 2 international locations agreed to inherit and advertise the superb traditions, decided to deliver the particular courting between the 2 international locations to a brand new degree of construction, more and more deepening and turning into more practical, specializing in step by step elevating financial, commerce and funding cooperation to the similar point as the great political family members between the 2 international locations. In global boards, the 2 international locations all the time intently coordinate and improve every different, sharing the stance of supporting the agreement of disputes through non violent way at the foundation of global legislation and the United Countries Constitution.
Cooperation in all fields is all the time enhanced.
The nice political and diplomatic family members between Vietnam and Cuba have created momentum for financial and commerce cooperation between the 2 international locations to increase. Vietnam is recently the second one greatest commerce spouse and the most important funding spouse in Cuba from the Asia and Oceania area.
In 2021, bilateral commerce turnover reached 261.7 million USD; in 2022, it reached 181.8 million USD; in 2023, it reached 57.33 million USD. The 2 aspects persevered to put into effect the Vietnam – Cuba Industry Settlement (signed in 2018, efficient from April 1, 2020) with many preferential commerce commitments, bringing advantages to companies of the 2 international locations and growing favorable stipulations for bilateral import and export of products. Referring to funding cooperation, Vietnam is recently the most important international investor in Asia in Cuba.
Vietnamese enterprises are taken with and step by step increasing funding cooperation in Cuba, particularly within the Mariel particular financial zone, within the fields of manufacturing of very important client items, building fabrics and renewable power. Recently, funding/three way partnership initiatives of Viglacera Company, Thai Binh Corporate and Agri VMA Corporate at ZED Mariel are nonetheless keeping up manufacturing and industry.
Vietnam recently has 7 initiatives invested through Vietnamese enterprises at ZED Mariel within the following spaces: business park infrastructure, building fabrics manufacturing, detergent manufacturing, diapers, solar power, animal feed and rice manufacturing; contributing to supplying items to the Cuban marketplace and growing jobs for native humans.
As well as, numerous Vietnamese enterprises are taken with and researching funding within the agricultural sector and client items manufacturing in Cuba – in step with Cuba’s priorities to put into effect the “Socio-Financial Building Approach to 2030”.
Vietnamese Ambassador to Cuba Le Quang Lengthy stated that Cuba is asking on Vietnamese companies to extend their presence and take part in cooperation and funding initiatives in Cuba to extend manufacturing, be sure that meals safety and transfer against exports, particularly initiatives within the fields of agriculture, cattle and effort. Assessing the potentialities for cooperation between the 2 international locations, Vietnamese Ambassador to Cuba Le Quang Lengthy stated that Vietnam and Cuba have a large number of room and possible for financial, commerce and funding cooperation.
The Birthday celebration and State leaders all the time be aware of orienting and directing related companies of Vietnam and within the exchanges, the leaders of the 2 international locations agreed that each side must prioritize specializing in eliminating difficulties and stumbling blocks and growing favorable stipulations to step by step strengthen cooperation in those fields to a degree commensurate with the shut and trusting political courting between the 2 international locations.
On the forty first assembly of the Vietnam – Cuba Intergovernmental Committee remaining April, the leaders of the 2 international locations known techniques, plans and measures to materialize the bilateral financial time table till 2025, overlaying just about 20 spaces, together with economic-trade-investment cooperation, agricultural and meals manufacturing, building, renewable power, healthcare, biotechnology, inns, science and era, finance, banking, building, transportation, tradition, sports activities and tourism.
In line with Vietnamese Ambassador to Cuba Le Quang Lengthy, to be able to proceed selling financial, commerce and funding cooperation, the 2 aspects want to take advantage of the Vietnam-Cuba Industry Settlement, which took impact from April 2020, to deliver items from each international locations into every different’s markets; actively advertise commerce and funding via festivals, exhibitions and funding boards to glue companies, be aware of growing stipulations for companies in localities of the 2 international locations to interchange knowledge on cooperation alternatives, and step by step in finding mechanisms and strategies of actually efficient cooperation in precedence spaces and strengths of every nation at the foundation of stipulations, features and explicit mechanisms of every aspect.
Referring to schooling and coaching, Cuba once a year awards many specialised scholarships to Vietnamese scholars, whilst Cuban adolescence are granted scholarships to review Vietnamese language and tradition on the Hanoi Nationwide College. Native cooperation and people-to-people change create sturdy ties between generations and cultures of the 2 international locations; on the similar time, they give a contribution to development a forged basis for political and financial family members between Vietnam and Cuba. To this point, 5 localities of Vietnam have signed cooperation agreements with 6 localities of Cuba.
Common Raul Castro Ruz won Minister of Public Safety To Lam all through his authentic discuss with to Cuba in 2022. (Photograph: Mai Phuong/VNA)
Opening a brand new segment within the particular friendship and cooperation between Vietnam and Cuba
The State discuss with of Common Secretary of the Birthday celebration Central Committee and President To Lam to Cuba has historic and symbolic importance, and opens a brand new segment within the particular cooperation and friendship between the 2 international locations with more effective and sustainable effects.
In line with Birthday celebration Central Committee Secretary and Head of the Birthday celebration Central Committee’s Exterior Family members Fee Le Hoai Trung, that is Mr. To Lam’s first discuss with to Cuba as Common Secretary and President, and Cuba is likely one of the first international locations that Common Secretary and President To Lam has visited, going down within the context that the 2 international locations are making ready to have a good time the sixty fifth anniversary of the established order of diplomatic family members (1960-2025).
The discuss with to Cuba through Common Secretary and President To Lam objectives to put into effect the international coverage of the thirteenth Nationwide Birthday celebration Congress, thereby maintaining that Vietnam attaches nice significance to and needs to increase family members with conventional pleasant international locations. The discuss with demonstrates the harmony, loyalty, exemplary, and constant spirit of the Birthday celebration, State, and humans of Vietnam with the Birthday celebration, State, and humans of Cuba, and affirms that the Birthday celebration, State, and humans of Vietnam need to accompany, cooperate, and increase in combination to continuously consolidate, advertise, and increase the normal harmony and particular friendship with the Birthday celebration, State, and humans of Cuba.
All the way through the discuss with, the highest leaders of the 2 Events and States will talk about and evaluation the achievements and cooperation effects between Vietnam and Cuba in recent years and suggest instructions to fortify and strengthen the effectiveness of cooperation in all fields, bringing the excellent cooperation between Vietnam and Cuba to a brand new degree, more and more creating considerably and sustainably, for the good thing about the folks of the 2 international locations.
All the way through the discuss with, Common Secretary and President To Lam is predicted to carry talks and conferences with key leaders; lay plant life on the statues of President Ho Chi Minh and Cuban nationwide hero Jose Marti; discuss with numerous financial institutions, together with the ones with cooperation and funding initiatives of Vietnamese enterprises; meet with pals and younger generations of the 2 international locations. Along side that, there might be flower-laying actions, expressing gratitude to President Ho Chi Minh in addition to to Cuban leaders…
Birthday celebration Central Committee Secretary and Head of the Birthday celebration Central Committee’s Exterior Family members Fee Le Hoai Trung stated that throughout the discuss with, Vietnam affirmed its want to proceed inheriting and selling the precious legacy of family members between the 2 international locations, at the forged basis pioneered through President Ho Chi Minh and Commander-in-Leader Fidel Castro. Additionally via this discuss with, the leaders of the 2 international locations will suggest instructions to improve the effectiveness of cooperation between the 2 Events and two international locations, for the good thing about the folks of the 2 international locations.
In line with the overview of Cuban Ambassador to Vietnam Orlando Nicolas Hernandez Guillen, this discuss with to Cuba through Common Secretary and President To Lam marks the most important second with historic importance, and is a sturdy testomony to the particular brotherly friendship during the last 65 years between the 2 countries positioned part an international aside./.