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Leader Fidel Castro’s first Vietnam visit an exceptional moment: ICAP President

Cuban leader Fidel Castro’s first visit to Vietnam and the liberated zone in Southern Vietnam was an exceptional moment in the history of the two countries’ relations, President of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) Fernando González Llort has said.
Leader Fidel Castro’s first Vietnam visit an exceptional moment: ICAP President ảnh 1Cuban leader Fidel Castro (second from left) and Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Van Dong (third from right) visit Quang Tri's Dong Ha town in 1973 (Photo: VNA)
Havana (VNA) – Cuban leader Fidel Castro’s first visit to Vietnamand the liberated zone in Southern Vietnam was an exceptional moment in thehistory of the two countries’ relations, President of the Cuban Institute ofFriendship with the Peoples (ICAP) Fernando González Llort has said.

Hero Fernando González Llort made the statement in hisinterview granted to the Vietnam News Agency’s reporter in Havana, on the occasionof the visit from September 24-28 by Politburo member and President of theNational Assembly of People's Power of Cuba Esteban Lazo Hernandez to Vietnam to attend aceremony marking 50 years since Fidel Castro visited the liberated zone inSouth Vietnam in September 1973.

According to him, in addition to political significance, Commander-in-ChiefFidel Castro's first visit to Vietnam was also symbolic.

The presence of the Cuban revolutionary leader in Quang Tri battlefield,despite efforts by Vietnamese officials to persuade him not to make that riskytrip, is an epic image carrying extraordinary political and moral stature, hestressed.

He said he thinks this meant great encouragement toVietnamese soldiers at that time, and the image of the Cuban leader holding the flag of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam demonstrated Cuba’s political will andcommitment to the just struggle of the Vietnamese people.  

He also emphasised that the visit to Vietnam by Esteban LazoHernández is a continuation of previous high-level visits by First Secretary ofthe Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee and President of Cuba MiguelDiaz-Canel and Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz, contributing to furtherstrengthening bilateral political relations and boosting economic and trade cooperation./.

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