Welcoming the delegation was Senior Lieutenant General Roberto Legrá Sotolongo, Member of the Party Central Committee, Chief of the General Staff, First Deputy Minister of the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of the Republic of Cuba.
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| General Nguyen Tan Cuong visits the Fidel Castro Ruz Center in Cuba. |
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| General Nguyen Tan Cuong visits the Fidel Castro Ruz Center in Cuba. |
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| General Nguyen Tan Cuong presented the book "History of 60 years of Vietnam-Cuba defense relations (1960-2020)" in Spanish to the Fidel Castro Ruz Center. |
The Fidel Castro Ruz Center is a place to collect, preserve, conserve and honor the legacy of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro, serving the purpose of researching and disseminating Fidel Castro's ideological values to future generations. It also regularly organizes conferences, seminars, meetings, competitions, develops academic events, teaches and conducts research projects, and produces media works related to Fidel.
The construction of the Fidel Castro Center has a special significance. In accordance with the will of leader Fidel Castro during his lifetime, that after his death, no public place would be named after him nor would any statues be erected to him. Respecting that wish, at the end of 2016, the Cuban National Assembly enacted a law prohibiting the use of Fidel's name and image for memorials and public landmarks. However, this law allows exceptions for facilities that aim to research and disseminate Fidel's ideology. Therefore, the Cuban State issued a special decree to establish the Fidel Castro Ruz Center.
Established on November 25, 2021, to date, the Fidel Castro Ruz Center has welcomed many visitors to visit and learn about the life and great career of leader Fidel Castro.
Writing in the guestbook, General Nguyen Tan Cuong expressed his honor and emotion to visit the Fidel Castro Ruz Center and believed that the special Cuba-Vietnam relationship founded and painstakingly built by President Ho Chi Minh and President Fidel will always be respected, nurtured and developed by generations of leaders of the Party, State, people and armies of the two countries, becoming an exemplary relationship of the times.
Here, General Nguyen Tan Cuong presented a model of the Vietnamese bronze drum and a book on the 60-year history of Vietnam-Cuba defense relations (1960-2020) in Spanish to the Fidel Castro Ruz Center.
*On the same afternoon, General Nguyen Tan Cuong and his delegation visited the Office of the Vietnamese Defense Attaché in Cuba.
General Nguyen Tan Cuong praised the officers of the Vietnam Defense Attaché Office in Cuba for overcoming many difficulties, successfully completing the tasks assigned by the Army, and being worthy representatives of the Vietnamese Ministry of National Defense in the host country.
General Nguyen Tan Cuong affirmed that the good traditional friendship between the people of Vietnam and Cuba has been constantly strengthened over the past time. The cooperation between the two countries has been comprehensively implemented in all fields such as agriculture, health, banking, science - technology, education - training, defense - security... High-level visits and contacts between the leaders of the two countries have been maintained. In particular, defense cooperation is one of the pillars, receiving great attention from the senior leaders of the two countries and the two armies. This places an increasingly important role and responsibility on the Defense Attaché Office, especially in advising and further promoting bilateral defense relations, commensurate with the good political relations between the two countries.
To continue the achievements and further contribute to the common development of the Vietnam - Cuba relationship, the Chief of the General Staff requested the staff of the Defense Attaché Office to continue to thoroughly grasp the guidelines and viewpoints of the Party, State and Army on international integration and defense diplomacy; to consolidate and further promote the representative role of the Vietnamese Ministry of National Defense in the host country, truly becoming an important bridge in the special traditional friendship between the two countries and the two Armies; to be deeply aware of the role and responsibility in preserving and consolidating the country's image.
At the same time, actively and proactively coordinate with the functional agencies of the Ministry of National Defense in advising on measures and orientations to promote defense cooperation with Cuba to become more substantial and in-depth; actively participate in domestic and foreign affairs activities with the Vietnamese Embassy in Cuba; well manage Vietnamese military students living and studying in Cuba; preserve and promote the role of Uncle Ho's soldiers, be ready to receive and excellently complete all tasks.
General Nguyen Tan Cuong affirmed that the leaders of the Ministry of National Defense support and will create favorable conditions for the Vietnamese Defense Attaché Office in Cuba to successfully complete its tasks, contributing further to the development of the special relationship between the two countries and the two armies of Vietnam and Cuba.
* Next, the delegation visited the Vietnamese Embassy in Cuba. The delegation was welcomed by Vietnamese Ambassador to Cuba Le Quang Long.
Outlining some key features of the current situation in Vietnam, General Nguyen Tan Cuong said that Vietnam's senior leaders have agreed to cooperate with Cuba to build a solar power complex project in the capital city of Havana. To implement the project, the Vietnamese Ministry of National Defense has sent a working delegation from the Military Industry-Telecoms Group (Viettel) to Cuba to conduct research, conduct field surveys, and agree on related contents.
General Nguyen Tan Cuong affirmed that the good traditional friendship between the people of Vietnam and Cuba, which was painstakingly cultivated by President Ho Chi Minh, President Fidel Castro, and generations of Vietnamese and Cuban leaders, is a special relationship that is pure, exemplary, loyal, and rare in the world, and is increasingly deepening, becoming more effective and practical, with the extremely important contributions of the staff of the Vietnamese Embassy in Cuba.
General Nguyen Tan Cuong hopes that the Embassy's staff will continue to act as a bridge of friendship and cooperation between the two countries, promote the achieved results, proactively research and promptly propose to the Party, State and Army solutions to promote the comprehensive cooperation between the two countries to become more in-depth, practical and effective.
News and photos: NGOC HAN (From La Habana, Cuba)
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