The Vietnamese people always value and remember the solidarity and support that the Party, the State and the people of Cuba have provided to their country for nearly seven decades. This was emphasized by Vietnam's Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan, when she received, in Ho Chi Minh City, the member of the Political Bureau and Vice President of the Republic of Cuba, Salvador Valdés Mesa.
According to the Vietnamese media Nhan Dhan, the Vice President of the Asian nation highlighted the common ideal of both nations, which is based on the close friendship of the main historical leaders of the Caribbean nation and Vietnam, Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz and President Ho Chi Minh, respectively.
Valdés Mesa thanked his counterpart for the possibility of the reunion, highlighted the history of heroism of the brotherly Vietnamese people against the U.S., and expressed his confidence that it will continue, positively, its process of social construction, which is a model.
The two sides discussed initiatives to boost bilateral relations in the Vietnam-Cuba Friendship Year 2025, and the implementation of the results of the visit to the island of the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, To Lam, in 2024.
As part of the working day, the Cuban Vice President visited the High Technology Industrial Agricultural Park in Cu Chi district, a science and innovation institution that specializes in obtaining varieties of seeds and aquaculture species. There, he expressed Cuba's interest in exchanging experiences in the production of seeds, particularly rice and corn.
They agreed to begin exchanging scientific and technological information as soon as possible, and to promote the first meetings between specialists from both countries, according to X.
Valdés Mesa, upon returning to Ho Chi Minh City, held a fraternal meeting with veterans of the war of resistance, Vietnamese businessmen and students graduated in our country, and thanked the solidarity with Cuba.
The Cuban delegation also paid tribute on behalf of the Cuban Party, State, Government and people, to the leader of the independence movement Ho Chi Minh, before the statue erected in his memory, in the center of the city that bears his name, in southern Vietnam.
Valdés Mesa toured the Museum of the Traces of War, an institution that shows the cruelty with which U.S. imperialism massacred the Vietnamese people, a space of denunciation of the crimes committed between 1954 and 1975.
