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Photo exhibition marks Fidel’s historic visit to Vietnam

An exhibition displaying 45 photographs capturing Cuban leader Fidel Castro’s visit to the liberated zone in southern Vietnam 45 years ago, as well as wider people-to-people relations between Vietnam and Cuba, opened in the central province of Quang Tri on September 14.
Photo exhibition marks Fidel’s historic visit to Vietnam ảnh 1At the exhibition (Photo: V NA)

Quang Tri (VNA)– An exhibition displaying 45 photographs capturing Cuban leader Fidel Castro’s visit to the liberated zone in southern Vietnam 45years ago, as well as wider people-to-people relations between Vietnam and Cuba,opened in the central province of Quang Tri on September 14.

Theevent was co-organised by the provincial People’s Committee and the VietnamNews Agency (VNA), with the attendance of a high-level Cuban delegation led by FirstVice President of the Council of State and the Council of Ministers SalvadoValdes Mesa, along with senior Vietnamese officials.

Photo exhibition marks Fidel’s historic visit to Vietnam ảnh 2At the exhibition. (Source: VNA)

Thephotos, taken by several generations of VNA journalists in different periods,also feature the development of Quang Tri province since it’s time as a war-tornlocality.

Thesame day, the Cuban delegates toured the Hien Luong-Ben Hai special nationalhistorical relic site, the relic site of the Provisional RevolutionaryGovernment of the Republic of South Vietnam, and the blockhouse in Dong Ha citywhere Fidel had visited in September 1973.

Photo exhibition marks Fidel’s historic visit to Vietnam ảnh 3At the exhibition. (Photo: VNA)

Fidelmade three visits to Vietnam in September 1973, December 1995, and February2003.

Hewas the first foreign leader to visit the newly-liberated area in the south ofVietnam during the anti-US resistance war. He was also a national leader whotook the initiative in international movements to support Vietnam’s strugglefor national independence and reunification, along with its process of nationaldevelopment and defence.

With all his great contributions, the Cubanleader was presented with the two noblest orders of the Vietnamese State: theGolden Star Order in 1982 and the Ho Chi Minh Order in 1989.–VNA 
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