HAVANA — General Secretary Nong Duc Manh and a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation started their visit to Chile’s capital Santiago yesterday, after a brief stop-over in Havana.
The delegation includes Nguyen Sinh Hung, Politburo member of the Party Central Committee (PCC) and permanent deputy prime minister, Nguyen Van Son, member of the PCC and director of the PCC’s External Relation Commission, and Ngo Van Du, director of the PCC Office, and other senior government officials.
The ceremony to receive the Vietnamese visitors was organised solemnly at the Institution Square. The General Secretary was planned to meet with Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet Jeria yesterday.
The General Secretary’s tour to the Latin American countries of Chile, Brazil, Venezuela and Cuba, included a brief stop over in Havana, Cuba on Thursday.
Politburo member of the Cuban Communist Party and Council of State Vice President Esteban Lazo Hernandez welcomed the leader of the Communist Party of Viet Nam when he arrived in the Caribbean Island State.
Hernandez said that the General Secretary’s first official tour of Latin American countries would not only mark a new era of relations between Viet Nam and the Latin American countries, but would also aid in the development of relations with all countries in the region.
The host went on to relay the importance that the Cuban Party, State and public placed on the General Secretary’s visit. Hernandez said Cuba was eager to receive the General Secretary within the next several days when Manh officially begins his visit to Cuba.
General Secretary Manh said the Vietnamese Party, State and public would always be grateful to the Latin American people for their aid to Viet Nam during the current process of national construction and during Viet Nam’s struggle for independence, freedom and national unification.
The Party chief also stated Viet Nam’s desire to expand upon co-operation with Latin American countries through equal partnership and mutually beneficial frameworks. — VNS
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