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The former president and first secretary of the Cuban Communist Party (CCP), Raul Castro, today received the head of the Directorate General of General Policy of the Vietnamese People's Army, Colonel General Luong Cuong. , who leads a military delegation visiting the Caribbean island.
During the meeting, Castro and the top military officer of the Indochinese country spoke of "the excellent friendship between the two peoples, the parties, the governments and the armed forces," according to a report from the TV station. Cuban State.
Luong, also a member of the secretariat of the Central Committee of the Vietnamese Communist Party, went to the island at the invitation of the Cuban Ministry of the Armed Forces (Minfar).
In statements to the Cuban official press, the Vietnamese military leader stressed the responsibility to continue to strengthen the unity and trust between his country and Cuba, and in particular bilateral defense relations, an area of cooperation fundamental for both countries. .
Cuba and Vietnam maintain close political and economic relations, in which the Indochinese country is designated as the second largest trading partner of the island in Asia, with a bilateral exchange that reached 220 million dollars in 2017 and could reach 500 millions of dollars in the future. year 2020, according to official projections. EFE
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