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Vietnamese leaders extend sympathy to Cuba over oil tank explosion

Top Vietnamese leaders have sent messages of sympathy to their Cuban counterparts over severe losses caused by a massive blaze in an oil storage facility in Cuba’s province of Matanzas on August 5.
Vietnamese leaders extend sympathy to Cuba over oil tank explosion ảnh 1A view of the massive fire at the fuel depot, sparked overnight by a lightning strike in Matanzas in western Cuba. (Photo: AFP)
Hanoi (VNA) – Top Vietnamese leaders have sent messagesof sympathy to their Cuban counterparts over severe losses caused by a massiveblaze in an oil storage facility in Cuba’s province of Matanzas on August 5.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee NguyenPhu Trong and President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on August 7 cabled messages of sympathy to FirstSecretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee and President Miguel Díaz-Canel.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Chairman of the NationalAssembly Vuong Dinh Hue also extended their sympathy to Cuban PM ManuelMarrero Cruz and President of the National Assembly of People's Power EstebanLazo Hernandez, respectively, over the tragic incident.

The same day, Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son sent a similar message to his Cuban counterpart Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla./.
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