
Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnam People’sArmy (VPA) will always show solidarity and stand side by side with the Cuban revolutionaryarmed forces in the struggle for peace, national independence and socialism.
The statement was made by Senior LieutenantGeneral Pham Ngoc Minh, Deputy Chief of the VPA General Staff, at a receptionheld by the Cuban Embassy in Hanoi on December 6 to mark the 62nd foundinganniversary of the Cuban revolutionary armed forces (1956-2018).
Minh said the relations between the two armies havealways received attention from generations of leaders of the two countries’Parties, Governments and Ministries of National Defence with a view todeepening the special traditional friendship between Vietnam and Cuba.
Colonel Juan Miguel Garcia Montano, Cuba’smilitary, naval and air attaché in Vietnam, said the main task of the Cuban revolutionaryarmed forces is to protect national sovereignty and prepare combat forces.
He highlighted the strong development of the relationsbetween the Cuban revolutionary armed forces and the VPA.-VNA