Visiting National Assembly Chairman of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong was
received by first Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central
Committee Fidel Castro at his residential palace in Havana on
September 6.
Trong conveyed the Vietnamese leaders’ greetings and best wishes to
Fidel and showed his happiness to see the Cuban leader in a good health.
He
briefed his host on the recent situation in Vietnam and activities
Vietnam has conducted to celebrate the 50 th anniversary of its
diplomatic ties with Cuba and confirmed the Vietnamese Party, State
and people’s consistent solidarity with Cuba .
The Cuban
leader recalled his visits to Vietnam , especially the visit to the
central Quang Tri province in 1973 when the war was still there,
unforgettable memories about the late President Ho Chi Minh and other
leaders and his meetings with the Vietnamese people.
Fidel wished
the Vietnamese people greater achievements in the course of making the
country more prosperous under the leadership of the Communist Party of
Vietnam.
He presented a copy of his newly-published book
“strategic victory” about the Cuban people’s revolutionary struggle with
his signature to the Vietnamese guest and asked him to bring the other
to Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh as his gift to him.
During
the visit, NA Chairman Trong granted interviews to the Cuban press in
which he said he was happy revisiting Cuba where he enjoyed
solidarity and fraternal friendship and witnessed the Cuban’s concerted
efforts and achievements in socio-economic development and in raising
their country’s role and position in the region and world arena.
He
reaffirmed that his visit is aimed at further deepening the two
countries’ faithful and pure traditional friendship in the new
circumstance.
Trong expressed his hopes that both Vietnam and
Cuba will teach young generations about their revolutions and
traditional friendship for maintaining, fostering and preserving it,
which as Fidel used to say “For Vietnam, Cuba is ready to shed its
blood”./.
