CUBA

Sep

22

2024

Achievements of Cuban medical internationalism despite the blockade were highlighted in the UK

Cuba’s dedicated health workers have been at the forefront of Cuba’s legendary internationalism and inspired us with what they have achieved at home and abroad despite 62 years of an illegal US blockade. They have decades of experience of struggling with insufficient medical and surgical supplies. But today’s shortages are unprecedented.

(Article by UK Member of Parliament Kim Johnson posted at Morning Star)

On September 23, I’m delighted to be speaking at a the north-west Cuba Vive Rally at the Casa in my home constituency of Liverpool Riverside.

Alongside the Cuban ambassador, parliamentary colleagues Bell Ribeiro-Addy and Richard Burgon and trade union leaders, I will be helping to raise awareness and funds to send life-saving medical aid to Cuba.

Sep

22

2024

Top leader’s visit to strengthen Vietnam-Cuba traditional relations: Party official

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee and State President To Lam’s upcoming state visit to Cuba aims to implement the foreign policy set forth at the 13th National Party Congress, reaffirming Vietnam's high regard for and desire to strengthen relations with traditional friends.

It will demonstrate the steadfast, loyal, and exemplary solidarity of the Party, State, and people of Vietnam with their Cuban counterparts, said Le Hoai Trung, Secretary of the CPV Central Committee and Chairman of the committee’s Commission for External Relations, in an interview granted to the press ahead of the visit. It will also affirm that the Party, State, and people of Vietnam wish to accompany and cooperate with Cuba to continuously solidify, promote and advance their traditional solidarity and special friendship, he added.

Sep

22

2024

Top Vietnamese leader’s Cuba visit expected to deepen traditional friendship

Cuban hero Fernando González Llort, President of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), has described the upcoming state visit to Cuba by Party General Secretary and State President To Lam as a milestone in the time-honoured relationship between the two countries.

Apart from holding political importance, the visit is expected to yield positive results in economic and foreign relations, with numerous cooperation agreements and a high level of consensus in the struggle for world peace, he said in an interview granted to the Vietnam News Agency (VNA).

Sep

21

2024

Top leader of Vietnam leaves Hanoi for UNGA 79, state visit to Cuba

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee and President of Vietnam To Lam, his spouse, and a high-ranking delegation of Vietnam left Hanoi on September 21 morning for a trip to attend the United Nations Summit of the Future and the 79th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 79), hold working sessions in the US, and later pay a state visit to Cuba.

The visit to Cuba will be made at the invitation of First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee and President of Cuba Miguel Diaz Canel Bermudez and his spouse.

Sep

20

2024

Party, State leader's visit marks new chapter in Vietnam-Cuba relations: Cuban ambassador

Party General Secretary and State President To Lam and his spouse are set to make a state visit to Cuba at the invitation of First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee and President of Cuba Miguel Diaz Canel Bermudez and his spouse. On this occasion, Cuban Ambassador to Vietnam Orlando Nicolas Hernandez Guillen shared insights with VietnamPlus about the significance of the upcoming visit.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee and State President To Lam is a great friend of the Cuban people, Party, and Government, hence the significance of his visit, the diplomat said.

Sep

20

2024

Vietnamese top leader’s Cuba visit of historical significance: Cuban Ambassador

The upcoming visit to Cuba by General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee and State President To Lam, a great friend of the Cuban people, Party, and Government, is important and of great significance, stated Cuban Ambassador to Vietnam Orlando Nicolas Hernandez Guillen.

The visit is very special, as it will be the first by a top leader of the Party and State of Vietnam to Cuba, the diplomat told Vietnam News Agency on the threshold of the visit.

Sep

20

2024

Vietnam, Cuba see potential for trade growth

The state visit to Cuba by Party General Secretary and State President To Lam next week is expected to further strengthen the two countries’ bilateral relationship, fostering their sustainable trade development.

Cuba was the first Latin American country to establish diplomatic relations with Vietnam in 1960. In the period before 2019, bilateral trade grew at more than 20% a year. According to the General Department of Vietnam Customs, their bilateral trade reached 155.5 million USD last year, with Vietnam's exports to Cuba accounting for the entire amount and no imports from Cuba to Vietnam recorded. In the first eight months of 2024, bilateral trade reached 134.7 million USD, up 187% year-on-year. Of this, Vietnam’s exports were valued at 133.36 million USD and imports 1.33 million USD.

Sep

19

2024

Top leader receives Cuban ambassador

Party General Secretary and State President To Lam hosted a reception for Cuban Ambassador to Vietnam Orlando Nicolas Hernandez Guillen in Hanoi on September 19. The top leader asked the ambassador to convey his thanks to First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of Cuba Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez for Cuba’s readiness to dispatch experts and doctors to Vietnam, helping the country deal with the devastating consequences of Typhoon Yagi.

Lam noted with pleasure the fruitful developments of the bilateral relations, and affirmed that Vietnam consistently treasures the solidarity and special solidarity between the two Parties, countries, and peoples.

Sep

14

2024

Cuban foreign minister spotlights special relations with Vietnam

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla has reasserted the solidarity, special friendship, and fraternal bond between the peoples of Cuba and Vietnam while receiving Vietnamese Ambassador to Cuba Le Quang Long. At their meeting on September 13, Bruno Rodríguez highlighted the strong bilateral political exchange at the highest leadership level.

He once again extended his condolences to the Vietnamese people on the passing of late Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, who made significant contributions to the bilateral relations.

Sep

13

2024

Message in the Global Call for the Summit of the Future

The future to which we aspire was traced decades ago and does not look good at all if we are guided by the signs of this present, increasingly unequal and exclusive, that the voracious neoliberal version of capitalism has imposed on a global scale as an expression of the undemocratic unipolarity that came with the collapse of the socialist alternative with the interventionist apogee of NATO. The Summit of the Future is called to address in a direct and holistic way the structural, systemic, moral, and political failures that have prevented us from achieving the goals set out in its Pact.

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