VOV.VN -President of the National Assembly of People's Power and President of the Council of State of Cuba Esteban Lazo Hernández will pay an official visit to Vietnam and co-chair the second session of the Vietnam-Cuba Inter Parliamentary Cooperation Committee from September 30 to October 5.

Donation campaigns in support of the Cuban people were launched on September 15 by the High Command of Coast Guard Region 4 and the Border Guard Command of Can Tho city.

Fifty-two years ago, in September 1973, when Vietnam’s Quang Tri province was still scarred by the ravages of war, Fidel Castro Ruz, the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, became the first and only foreign head of state to visit the liberated zone in South Vietnam at that time.

General Nguyen Tan Cuong, Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA), and Deputy Minister of National Defence, on September 3, held a meeting with Senior Lieutenant General Álvaro López Miera, Minister of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba, who is on an official visit to Vietnam.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh urged Vietnamese and Cuban enterprises to join hands for practical and effective cooperation outcomes, following the agreement by Party General Secretary To Lam and Cuban First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee and President of Cuba Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez to deepen economic cooperation.

General Trinh Van Quyet, Chairman of the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People’s Army had a meeting with visiting Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba Corps General Álvaro López Miera in Hanoi on September 3.

Cuban media has given wide coverage to the official visit to Vietnam from August 31 to September 2 by Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee and President of Cuba, underlining the solidarity, special friendship and comprehensive cooperation between the two countries

Madam Ngo Phuong Ly, spouse of Party General Secretary To Lam, and Madam Lis Cuesta Peraza, spouse of First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee and President of Cuba Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, enjoyed a traditional water puppet performance and visited Ngoc Son Temple in Hanoi on September 1.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee To Lam, State President Luong Cuong, and their spouses jointly presided over a state banquet in Hanoi on September 1 in honour of First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (CPC) Central Committee and President of Cuba Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez and his spouse Lis Cuesta Peraza.

VOV.VN - State President Luong Cuong held a meeting with First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee and President of Cuba Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez in Hanoi on September 1, as part of the later’s state visit to Vietnam and attendance at a grand ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the August Revolution and National Day (September 2).