The Parliament of Vietnam has given away 750 tabletstwo servers, a storage device and two multifunction printers to the National Assembly of People’s Power to improve operational efficiency and in support of the “just revolutionary cause of the Cuban people.”
Tran Thanh Man, vice president of the Vietnamese National Assembly, presented the gift this Wednesday to Orlando Nicolás Hernández Guillén, the island’s ambassador to the Asian country, who thanked the donation and praised that Vietnam “has always been side by side with Cuba.” .
Hernández Guillén again accused the US of damaging Cuba’s economic activity, specifically with regard to foreign trade and foreign investment. “No citizen or sector of the economy escapes the effects derived from this unilateral policy,” he insisted.
Mentions of Fidel Castro and his visit to the country 49 years ago were not lacking. “Fidel, like Martí at the time, knew, with exquisite sensitivity, to appraise the high human and moral value of this people and engender a feeling that keeps us united to this day,” said the Cuban ambassador.
“Fidel, like Martí at the time, knew, with exquisite sensitivity, to appraise the high human and moral value of this people and engender a feeling that keeps us united to this day,” said the ambassador.
Thanh Man, for his part, responded that Castro’s phrase “remained deeply engraved in the hearts of generations of Vietnamese,” saying on that visit in September 1973: “We are willing to give even our own blood for Vietnam.”
The official followed the path of emotion and quoted Ho Chi Minh, in open competition with Castro, who said: “Vietnam and Cuba are separated by thousands of kilometers, but the hearts of the two countries are as close as brothers and sisters. “.
The Cuban ambassador said that the Cuban authorities await the next official visit of the president of the National Assembly, Vuong Dinh Hu, and that they wish to continue the path of cooperation that they have maintained for almost half a century.
Vietnam and Cuba maintain close commercial, economic and political ties, although in recent years the models of both countries have been taking off. The Asian country abandoned the Marxist planned economy to become a socialist market economy, a formula more similar to China.
Since then, the Vietnamese economy began to flourish and now it is this country that provides aid to the Island. The joint agricultural program allows, for example, Cuba to invest less in importing rice, since each year it receives some 5,000 tons of grain Vietnamese.
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