Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong (R) bestows a Ho Chi Minh Order upon President of the Council of State and Council of Ministers of Cuba Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez in recognition of his contributions to the Vietnam-Cuba friendship and cooperation (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) - President of the Council of State and Council of Ministersof Cuba Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez and his spouse concluded theirthree-day official friendship visit to Vietnam on November 10 at the invitationof the President and Prime Minister of Vietnam.
During thevisit, the Cuban leader held talks with General Secretary of the CommunistParty of Vietnam Central Committee and President Nguyen Phu Trong.
Under thewitness of the two leaders, Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh andMinister of Finance Dinh Tien Dung, representing the Vietnamese Government, andVice President of the Cuban Council of Ministers Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz, onbehalf of the Cuban Government, signed a new trade agreement and a protocol oncapital disbursement and financial management of cooperation in rice productiondevelopment for 2019-2023.
The Cuban leaderalso met with Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, National Assembly ChairwomanNguyen Thi Kim Ngan, and Secretary of the Party Committee of Ho Chi Minh CityNguyen Thien Nhan, as well as representatives of the Vietnam-Cuba FriendshipAssociation. He also attended a Vietnam-Cuba business workshop.
Earlier,the Cuban leader, his spouse and the Cuban delegation laid a wreath at theMonument of Heroic Martyrs and paid tribute to President Ho Chi Minh at hismausoleum in Hanoi.
He alsovisited the Cu Chi Tunnels historical relic site and the Saigon Hi-Tech Park inHo Chi Minh City.
At the meetings, the two sides briefed each other onthe situation in their respective countries and discussed orientations andmeasures to deepen the special relationship between the two nations in aneffective and practical manner, while discussing a number of regional andinternational issues of mutual concern.
The two sides applauded the growth of the bilateral comprehensivecooperation, including increasingly trustworthy political ties through theregular exchange of delegations and experiences.
Cooperationmechanisms between the Vietnamese and Cuban Governments, ministries, andsectors have been maintained and become more and more effective. Relationsbetween the two parties, parliaments, and peoples have also been enhanced, theynoted.
The twosides pledged to maintain close and all-round cooperation during theirprocesses of national construction and development. They promised to make everyeffort to intensify and tighten their exemplary fraternity, traditionalfriendship, comprehensive cooperation, and faithful solidarity.
The twosides discussed a wide range of measures to foster economic, trade, andinvestment partnerships in a result-oriented and practical manner. They alsoagreed to strength cooperative ties in defence, security, external relations,agriculture, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, healthcare, education, andscience-technology, and people-to-people exchanges.
They agreed to direct ministries and sectors toactively promote the implementation of the bilateral trade cooperation agreement,seek ways to facilitate businesses’ access to each other’s markets, and striveto raise trade to 500 million USD by 2022.
On behalfof the Vietnamese State, Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trongbestowed a Ho Chi Minh Order upon the Cuban leader in recognition of his contributionsto the Vietnam-Cuba friendship and cooperation.-VNA
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