Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong (L) and President of the Council of State and Council of Ministers of Cuba Miguel Diaz-Canel (Source: VNA) Havana (VNA) – The Vietnam visit by President of the Council ofState and Council of Ministers of Cuba Miguel Diaz-Canel made headlines in allnewspapers and on official websites of the Caribbean nation on November 8-9.
Right on the first day he arrived in Hanoi, the Cuba NewsAgency (ACN) and major news outlets such as Granma, Juventud Rebelde,Cubadebate and Prensa Latina ran articles highlighting the Cuban leader’sactivities and meetings.
Website Cubadebate cited his posts on his Twitter account as saying that heappreciated his meetings with Vietnam’s high-ranking leaders and affirmed bothsides’ commitments to raise the level of economic relations to the level ofpolitical ties.
“Much to learn from our Vietnamese brothers, winners ofwars, embargos and consequences of underdevelopment, with exemplary work,creativity and discipline,” Miguel Diaz-Canel wrote on Twitter.
Vietnam is the fifth leg of the Cuba leader’s tour toEuropean and Asian nations. Earlier, he stopped over in France and paidofficial visits to Russia, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) andChina. Laos will be the last leg of this tour.-VNA
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