Cuba honours heroic tradition of Vietnam People’s Army
The Cuban Ministry of Revolutionary Armed Forces (MINFAR) recently held a ceremony in Havana to celebrate the 75th founding anniversary of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA).
Lt. Gen. Elfre Perez Zaldivar, head of the Logistics Department of the Cuban Ministry of Revolutionary Armed Forces, addresses the ceremony in Havana (Photo: VNA)
Havana (VNA) – The Cuban Ministry ofRevolutionary Armed Forces (MINFAR) recently held a ceremony in Havana tocelebrate the 75th founding anniversary of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA).
The event, chaired by Minister Leopoldo CintraFrias and Vietnamese Ambassador Nguyen Trung Thanh, was attended by more than700 guests, including officials of the Communist Party of Cuba and theGovernment, the MINFAR and the Ministry of the Interior of the country, alongwith representatives of some diplomatic and defence missions.
In his speech, Lt. Gen. Elfre Perez Zaldivar,head of the MINFAR’s Logistics Department, said the VPA is an illustration ofthe fact that in a war, the most important thing is not powerful weapons orhigh technology, but the people with unyielding fighting spirit and confidencein victory for the sake of national sovereignty.
Highlighting the Vietnamese army and people’sfeats of arms, he said within only three decades since its establishment, thearmy that was founded on December 22, 1944 of the Vietnamese people defeatedthree of the world’s strongest militaries to liberate the nation.
The Cuban armed forces have developed VPA’sexperiences into their own theories, he affirmed, stressing the close-knit andfaithful solidarity between the two countries’ militaries and peoples.
Meanwhile, Col. Ta Van Phang, head of theVietnamese defence attaché office in Cuba, said each soldier and people ofVietnam always keep in mind late Cuban leader Fidel Castro Ruz’s trenchantstatement that: “For Vietnam, Cuba is ready to shed its blood.”
In any difficult circumstances, Vietnam willalways stand firmly side by side with Cuba to safeguard sovereignty,independence, peace and socialism, he added.
Earlier, Chief of the Cuban Air and Air DefenceForce Maj. Gen. Pedro Mendiondo Gomez and Ambassador Thanh led a delegation tolay wreaths at the monument to late Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh inHavana./.
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Lt. Gen. Elfre Perez Zaldivar, head of the Logistics Department of the Cuban Ministry of Revolutionary Armed Forces, addresses the ceremony in Havana (Photo: VNA) 
