Provincial Party Secretary Pham Dai Duong Receives Cuban Ambassador to Vietnam

On the morning of July 17, Pham Dai Duong, Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation, received a delegation from the Embassy of Cuba in Vietnam led by Rogelio Polanco Fuentes, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Cuba to Vietnam, during the delegation’s working visit to Phu Tho Province. The meeting was also attended by Quach Tat Liem, Member of the Provincial Party Committee and Vice Chairman of the Provincial People’s Committee, together with leaders of relevant provincial departments and agencies.

Provincial Party Secretary Pham Dai Duong meets with the delegation from the Embassy of Cuba in Vietnam.

Welcoming the delegation, Provincial Party Secretary Pham Dai Duong expressed his sincere appreciation to Ambassador Rogelio Polanco Fuentes and members of the Cuban Embassy for visiting and working with Phu Tho, describing the visit as a reflection of the Embassy’s commitment to strengthening cooperation with the province.

Provincial Party Secretary Pham Dai Duong briefs the delegation on the province’s socio-economic development.

Mr. Pham emphasised that Vietnam and Cuba share a unique, longstanding and steadfast friendship founded by President Ho Chi Minh and Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro, and nurtured by successive generations of leaders and people of both countries for more than six decades.

He affirmed that the Vietnamese people will always remember the invaluable support and solidarity extended by the Party, State and people of Cuba throughout Vietnam’s struggle for national independence as well as its ongoing national development.

Ambassador Rogelio Polanco Fuentes introduces Cuba’s strengths and development potential.

The Provincial Party Secretary also briefed the delegation on Phu Tho’s development potential, competitive advantages and strategic orientation following the reorganisation of provincial administrative units, while highlighting the province’s recent socio-economic achievements.

He noted that before the provincial merger, the former Vinh Phuc Province had maintained a close and productive relationship with the Embassy of Cuba in Vietnam.

Building on the strong cooperation previously established between Vinh Phuc Province and the Cuban Embassy, as well as the 2024 Cooperation Agreement between the Vinh Phuc Provincial Party Committee and the Mayabeque Provincial Party Committee, Phu Tho will continue to inherit and expand those achievements. The province hopes to deepen practical and effective cooperation with Mayabeque Province and other Cuban localities across a wide range of sectors in the years ahead.

Provincial Party Secretary Pham Dai Duong presents a commemorative gift to Ambassador Rogelio Polanco Fuentes.

Ambassador Rogelio Polanco Fuentes expressed his sincere appreciation for the warm reception extended by the leaders of Phu Tho Province and said he was delighted to visit the province, the ancestral homeland of the Vietnamese nation.

Congratulating Phu Tho on its recent socio-economic achievements, the Ambassador thanked the Party organisation, authorities and people of the province for their valuable support to the Cuban people during some of Cuba’s most challenging periods, describing it as vivid evidence of the enduring friendship between the two nations.

He expressed his hope that Phu Tho would continue expanding cooperation with Cuban localities by capitalising on the strengths of both sides, particularly in industrial production, renewable energy and tourism.

The Ambassador also affirmed Cuba’s readiness to support Phu Tho in healthcare by providing professional training, dispatching specialist doctors, and supplying preventive healthcare services, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology to the province’s medical institutions.

Delegates pose for a commemorative photograph.

Ambassador Rogelio Polanco Fuentes expressed his hope that more Cuban delegations would visit Vietnam in general and Phu Tho Province in particular in the coming years to gain a deeper understanding of the province’s development achievements. He said such exchanges would further expand cooperation across multiple fields and contribute to strengthening the special solidarity and friendship between the Parties, States and peoples of Vietnam and Cuba.

Duc Anh