Messages to support Cuba and to condemn the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States on the island were sent this August 4 from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Cuban Committee of solidarity with those countries.
In a videoconference organized by the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) and Havana´s diplomatic missions in Hanoi, Phnom Penh and Vientiane, academics and former diplomats graduated in the island expressed fraternal words of recognition of the role of the Committee and internationalism solidarity of the Cuban Revolution.
Phouangkeo Langsy, vice president of Laos-Cuba Association, and Bunthoeurn Thet, deputy-head of the Organization of Cambodian graduated in the Caribbean country, praised the Commander in Chief Fidel Castro´s contribution to the solidarity movement with the three Southeast Asian nations, as well as the Moncada heroine, Melba Hernández´s personal engagement , at the head of the organization since its origen.
Professor Nguyen Viet Thao, permanent vice president of the Vietnam-Cuba Friendship Association, emphasized that the Committee was a paradigm of internationalism, and a common trench against Yankee imperialism in the struggle of the peoples for their liberation and national progress.
By ratifying permanent solidarity of the Vietnamese people with the Cuban people, Viet Thao underlined the hostile and reactionary nature of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by Washington on Havana for almost six decades.
Vietnam and Cuba continue to share challenges and difficulties, and today, as always, we reaffirm our condemnation of the blockade and we demand the end of that policy that successive US administrations have maintained, in violation of Cuba's right to sovereignty and self-determination, Viet Thao said.
Vice president of ICAP, José Prieto, and the Cuban writer and journalist, Marta Rojas, witness and chronicler of crucial passages during the Vietnam War, also ettended the meeting.
The Cuban Committee of Solidarity with Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia was founded on August 4, 1970, when the Committee for Solidarity with South Vietnam, created in 1963, was resized in order to support the Vietnamese revolutionaries and denounce the horrors of the war in the Indochinese country.