Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh symbolically hands over Cuban Ambassador Orlando Nicolás Hernández Guillén the gift of 10,000 tonnes of rice from the Party, State and people of Vietnam to Cuba (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh held a reception for Cuban Ambassador Orlando Nicolás Hernández Guillén in Hanoi onJuly 29, during which the host underlined Vietnam’s greatattention to the close-knit friendship with Cuba.
In recent years, Vietnamese and Cuban ministries and sectorshave joined hands together to overcome difficulties brought by the COVID-19pandemic, while reinforcing and developing cooperation in all fields, noted thePM.
The two sides recalled the fruitful outcomes of telephonetalks between Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and First Secretaryof the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee and Presidentof Cuba Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermudez on May 5 andJuly 27, as well as talks between PM Chinh and his Cuban counterpart ManuelMarrero Cruz on July 1.
On the basis of high-level agreements between the two countries, PM Chinhasked Ambassador Orlando Nicolás Hernández Guillén to coordinate with ministries,sectors and agencies of both sides to effectively implement orientations andmeasures to strengthen the traditional solidarity and friendship andcomprehensive cooperation between the two countries.
He underlined the significance of bilateral cooperation and experience sharingin clinical trials, licencing and transferring of Cuba’s COVID-19 vaccineproduction technology in Vietnam following agreements reached in the recent talks between the Vietnamese and Cuban PMs.
At the reception hosted by PM Pham Minh Chinh for Cuban Ambassador Orlando Nicolás Hernández Guillén (Photo: VNA) On the occasion, PM Chinh announced that Vietnam willpresent Cuba 10,000 tonnes of rice, while Hanoi also offers Havana 2,000tonnes of rice with a hope of easing difficulties facing Cuban people amid the COVID-19pandemic.
He added that Vietnam will ship the rice to Cuba as soon aspossible, expressing his hope that the two sides will continue to strengthencooperation to ensure food security for Cuba.
For his part, Ambassador Orlando Nicolás Hernández Guillén thanked the Party,State and people of Vietnam for the support, which reflects the specialtraditional friendship between the two countries.
He pledged to work hard to make more contributions to thereinforcement of the special traditional friendship, fraternal solidarity and andcomprehensive cooperation as well as mutual trust between the two Parties,States, Governments and peoples, especially in hard time.
He vowed to coordinate closely with relevant agencies ofboth sides to promote bilateral cooperation in COVID-19 vaccine production inVietnam.
Following the reception, PM Chinh symbolically handed over the gift of 10,000tonnes of rice from the Party, State and people of Vietnam to Cuba, and leaders of the Hanoi Party Committee presented symbolically 2,000tonnes of rice from Hanoi to Havana to the Cuban Ambassador./.
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