Cuban President receives visiting Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister

The Vietnamese Government leader congratulated Cuba on its significant achievements despite numerous difficulties and challenges.

He underlined Viet Nam’s consistent solidarity with and support for Cuba as well as objection to the embargo against the Caribbean nation.

He informed his host about the outcomes of his talks and working sessions with Cuban Government leaders and made some suggestions for pushing ahead with the comprehensive, substantive, and effective cooperation between the two countries.

The Deputy Prime Minister stressed the need to devise mechanisms and measures for tackling difficulties, further promoting bilateral economic, trade and investment ties, and effectively implementing joint projects, especially in agriculture, thus helping strengthen the countries’ friendship and all-round partnerships.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, in reply said that the bilateral relations are special and have continually been reinforced on the basis of mutual confidence, with their strategic importance affirmed in the current context.

He congratulated Viet Nam on its recent political - diplomatic and socioeconomic attainments while appreciating the Vietnamese Party, Government, and people’s assistance for his country through the stable rice supply and technical support in terms of rice and fisheries production.

The host leader hailed joint ventures and investment projects with Vietnamese enterprises, which have effectively contributed to Cuba’s economic stability and development.

Cuba said Miguel Diaz-Canel always attaches attention to and provides optimal conditions for Vietnamese enterprises to do business and invest in such fields as trading, consumer goods production, renewable energy, construction material, and industrial park infrastructure./.