Secretary of Da Nang city Party Committee Truong Quang Nghia led a delegation to visit Cuba from August 28-30 to look for new cooperative opportunities, and foster the traditional relations between the two countries.
Secretary of the Da Nang municipal Party Committee Truong Quang Nghia (L) shakes hands with Head of the Department of External Relations under the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba Jose Ramon Balaguer (Photo: VNA)
Havana (VNA) – Secretary of Da Nang city Party Committee TruongQuang Nghia led a delegation to visit Cuba from August 28-30 to look for newcooperative opportunities, and foster the traditional relations between the twocountries.
In a talk with Head of the Department of External Relations under the CentralCommittee of the Communist Party of Cuba (CPC) Jose Ramon Balaguer, Nghia saidthat Da Nang city wants to study and share with Cuba experience in such sectorsas construction, tourism management, education, healthcare, and high-techagriculture.
He also highlighted the city’s socio-economic development in the past years aswell as its orientation in the coming time.
He stressed that the visit aims to concretise the results attained during thevisit to Cuba made by Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong in March, thusexpanding the bilateral relations in a more practical manner.
Jose Ramon Balaguer, for his part, briefed the Vietnamese guests of the CPC’sactivities during the process of updating the socio-economic model in thecontext of the world’s new challenges.
He affirmed the CPC’s determination to firmly protect national independence andsovereignty, as well as carry out the socio-economic update model towards anequal and democratic society.
During their stay in Cuba, the Da Nang Party Committee delegation laid wreathof flowers at the President Ho Chi Minh Monument in Havana, and visited manycultural and economic sites in the host nation.-VNA
Vietnamese leaders on July 25 extended congratulations to their Cuban counterparts on the 65th anniversary of the attack on the Moncada Barracks (July 26, 1953) which the Cubans viewed as the beginning of the Cuban Revolution.
The Ho Chi Minh City Union of Friendship Organisations (HUFO) held a get-together to on August 8 to mark the 65th anniversary of Cuba’s National Rebellion Day (July 26, 1953 – 2018).
The Vietnam – Cuba Friendship Association and other relevant organizations on August 11 held a ceremony in Hanoi to mark the 40th anniversary of the 11th world youth festival in Cuba.
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The Vietnam-Cuba Friendship Association in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap has significantly contributed to tightening the friendship and comprehensive cooperation between the Vietnamese and Cuban people, said a provincial official.
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Nghia affirmed that this is a milestone of special significance, affirming and honouring the the Vietnamese revolutionary press’s glorious tradition of 100 years of serving the revolutionary cause of the Party, serving the Fatherland, and serving the people.
The Party and State of Vietnam always attach great importance to and give top priority to the development of Vietnam–China relations. Vietnam is ready to work with the Chinese Party and State to further deepen the Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership and promote the building of the Vietnam-China community with a shared future that carries strategic significance.
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Secretary of the Da Nang municipal Party Committee Truong Quang Nghia (L) shakes hands with Head of the Department of External Relations under the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba Jose Ramon Balaguer (Photo: VNA) 
