Jakarta, March 18.- The Ambassador of Cuba in this capital, Cra. Tania Velázquez López, received a courtesy visit at the headquarters of the Cuban diplomatic mission, the designated Ambassador of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to the Republic of Indonesia and concurring in Timor Leste, H.E. Mr. Ta Van Thong.
In a warm and friendly conversation, both parties stressed that, despite the distance, they share revolutionary principles and aspirations for independence and freedom, values fostered by the historical leaders, Commander in Chief, Fidel Castro and Ho Chi Minh and of which they are heirs. our towns.
They also pondered the special ties of brotherhood and mutual trust that unite both nations, forged in times of war against the American invader and that recently reached six decades of having established diplomatic relations.
Ambassador Ta Van Thong recalled that Fidel's visit to Vietnam in 1973 made him the first president to visit the recently liberated areas of the south, even under threat of bombing, and that on that occasion, Fidel Castro assured that Cuba , despite being a small and poor country, would participate in the reconstruction of Vietnam.
They also exchanged mutual cooperation, the frequent donations of Vietnamese rice to Cuba and the recent one made by the Caribbean island of 150,000 doses of the Abdala vaccine against Covid-19, as well as the sending of doctors to the Asian nation to face the disease.
For her part, the Cuban diplomat thanked the sister Asian nation for its permanent and express rejection of the United States blockade against Cuba and the will to strengthen economic ties and cooperation with the island.
On December 2, 1960, Cuba became the first Latin American country to establish diplomatic relations with Vietnam. Our leaders, parties and governments, when referring to the relations between Cuba and Vietnam, have cataloged them as exemplary, a model of relations, a symbol of the times.
Embassy of Cuba in Indonesia.