Da Nang wants to step up ties with Cuba

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.
Da Nang wants to step up ties with Cuba ảnh 1Secretary 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
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