Standing Vice Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee Nguyen Thi Tuyen (L) and Roberto Morales Ojeda, Politburo member and permanent member of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) Central Committee. (Photo: VNA) The delegation paid a courtesy call to Roberto MoralesOjeda, Politburo member and permanent member of the Secretariat of theCommunist Party of Cuba (PCC) Central Committee.
Tuyen, who is also a member of the Communist Party ofVietnam (CPV) Central Committee, said Vietnam highly values Cuba’s prompt supportfor its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly regarding the supply ofvaccines and sending of medical personnel to Vietnam.
Vietnam follows a consistent policy on consolidating and boosting the twoParties’ and peoples’ amity and special solidarity, she affirmed.
Tuyen proposed the Cuban official direct increasing the exchange of Party delegations and information, and people-to-people exchanges in a bid to boost mutual understanding.
At the talks with leaders of the Party Committee of thecapital city Havana, the Vietnamese and Cuban sides agreed on the importance ofParty building work and discussed orientations and measures to step up cooperation between the two capital cities in health care, agriculture, trade, culture and education.
Tuyen and Antonio Torres Iríbar, First Secretary of the Havana Party Committee, concurred to considerthe signing of a memorandum of understanding on cooperation between the capitalsin 2023.
On the occasion, Hanoi presented a token of 2,000 tonnes ofrice as a gift to Havana, given the difficulties, including the food securitymatter, facing the Cuban city.
The delegation laid flowers in memory of Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh at a park named after the late leader in Havana. (Photo: VNA) VNA
