Deputy PM’s visit to further augment Vietnam - Cuba ties

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang is scheduled to pay an official visit to Cuba from April 14 to 16, aiming to continue reinforcing multifaceted cooperation between the two countries.
Deputy PM’s visit to further augment Vietnam - Cuba ties ảnh 1Vietnamese Ambassador Designate to Cuba Le Quang Long in an interview granted to the Vietnam News Agency ahead of Deputy PM Tran Luu Quang's visit (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quangis scheduled to pay an official visit to Cuba from April 14 to 16, aiming tocontinue reinforcing multifaceted cooperation between the two countries.

Talking to the Vietnam News Agency, Vietnamese Ambassador Designateto Cuba Le Quang Long said the visit is taking place amid the continually enhanced traditionalfriendship and increasingly substantive cooperation between the two countries.Their fraternity, comprehensive cooperation, and mutual trust have been furtherstrengthened and expanded in all aspects.

During the trip, the twosides will focus on promoting agricultural cooperation, including in rice productionand aquaculture, to help Cuba guarantee long-term food security. Their relevantministries and sectors will review bilateral cooperation; work out measures forfostering partnerships, especially in politics - diplomacy, economy - trade -investment, agriculture, and science - technology; step up the implementationof the Inter-Governmental Committee mechanism; and push ahead with a legalcorridor for facilitating bilateral cooperation and people-to-people diplomacy.
         
Deputy PM Quang is set to make courtesy visits to First Secretary of theCommunist Party of Cuba and President of Cuba Miguel Diaz-Canel, along with PM Manuel Marrero Cruz. Hewill also meet with Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla,have talks with Deputy PM and Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment RicardoCabrisas Ruiz, and attend the closing session of the 41st meeting ofthe two countries’ Inter-Governmental Committee.

He is scheduled to visit the Mariel Special Development Zone,some investment projects of Vietnamese businesses there, and the Vo Thi ThangPrimary School. He will also engage in a meeting with representatives of theVietnamese community and the staff of the Vietnamese Embassy in Cuba, accordingto Long.

The diplomat noted the visit is intended to affirm the Vietnamese Partyand State’s consistent policy of further intensifying the special friendship,solidarity, and comprehensive cooperation with the Cuban Party, Government, andpeople; demonstrate Vietnam’s willingness to help ease the serious economicchallenges and difficulties facing the Caribbean nation; and assist Cuba to stabilisethe socio-economic situation and ensure food security via concrete measures ofagricultural cooperation and rice export.

He perceived that the two countries boast substantial room and potentialfor economic, trade, and investment partnerships. Leaders of the VietnameseParty and State have always ordered optimal conditions be created for bringingcooperation in these areas on par with the political relations and mutual trust.

Longvoiced his belief that basing on the time-tested solidarity, specialfriendship, and all-round cooperation, the two countries can harvest practicalresults to carry out the agreements reached during high-level visits andmeetings while boosting fruitful relations, particularly in economy, trade, andinvestment./.
VNA

See more

NA Chairman Tran Thanh Man speaks at the first meeting of the NA Party Committee for the 2020-2025 tenure in Hanoi on February 10. (Photo: VNA)

Top legislator calls for strong Party building, reform in National Assembly

NA Chairman Man, who is also a Politburo member and Secretary of the NA Party Committee, said that the committee, with nearly 3,000 members, must maintain strict organisational principles and build a clean and strong Party organisation that promotes solidarity, democracy, responsibility, unity, and creativity.

State President Luong Cuong holds a working session with the Presidential Office on February 10. (Photo: VNA)

State leader works with Presidential Office on judicial affairs

On the amnesty policy, State President Luong Cuong reaffirmed that granting clemency on the occasion of major national holidays in 2025 reflects the Party and State’s humanitarian approach, encouraging rehabilitation and reintegration of ex-offenders into society.

At the ceremony marking the handover of duties at the Party Central Committee’s Office on February 7 (Photo: VNA)

Party Central Committee’s Office welcomes new chief

Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee and Chairman of the committee’s Inspection Commission Nguyen Duy Ngoc on February 7 handed over the duties of the Chief of the committee’s Office to Secretary of the Party Central Committee Le Hoai Trung.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (right) and Thai Ambassador Urawadee Sriphiromya. (Photo: VNA)

PM welcomes new ambassadors of Pakistan, Thailand

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hosted separate receptions in Hanoi on February 7 for Pakistani Ambassador Kohdayar Marri and Thai Ambassador Urawadee Sriphiromya, who recently took up their diplomatic posts in Vietnam.