The ceremony was attended by Fernando Gonzalez Llort, President of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP); Yolanda Ferrer Gomez, President of the Cuba-Viet Nam Friendship Association; representatives of agencies, organisations, and the Cuba-Viet Nam Friendship Association; teachers and students of Bertolt Brecht Secondary School; all officials, staff, and spouses of the Vietnamese Representative Mission in Cuba, along with a large number of Vietnamese students studying in Cuba.
Speaking at the ceremony, Duong Binh, Chargé d’Affaires of the Embassy of Viet Nam in Cuba, emphasised the historic significance of September 2, 1945 – the day President Ho Chi Minh read the Declaration of Independence, founding the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam, now the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam.
On behalf of the leaders of the Party and State of Cuba, Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Politburo Member and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, delivered an emotional speech at the Commemoration Ceremony. (Photo: Embassy of Viet Nam in Cuba)
Chargé d’Affaires Duong Binh affirmed that, throughout the past 80 years, overcoming countless difficulties and challenges during the struggle for national independence as well as in the process of building and developing the country, Viet Nam has achieved great and historically significant accomplishments in all fields. From being a poor, colonised country, Viet Nam has become one of the 35 largest economies in the world and ranks among the top 20 nations with the largest scale of international trade.
On this occasion, Chargé d’Affaires Duong Binh expressed gratitude for the solidarity, invaluable and wholehearted support that the Cuban people had given to Viet Nam during its most difficult years, from aid in sugar, milk, medicine to training human resources.
Stressing that supporting Cuba is a duty, a command from the heart of every Vietnamese, and also the implementation of President Ho Chi Minh’s Testament, Chargé d’Affaires Duong Binh affirmed that Viet Nam is ready to stand shoulder to shoulder with Cuba in overcoming all challenges, as the largest Asian investor and the second largest trading partner of Cuba in the continent.
At the flower offering ceremony, Fernando Gonzalez Llort, President of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), extended his warmest congratulations to the Party, State, and people of Viet Nam on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of National Day.
Praising the campaign “65 years of Viet Nam-Cuba Solidarity” launched by the Viet Nam Red Cross, which attracted nearly 2 million participants in just three weeks, Fernando Gonzalez Llort considered it a vivid symbol of strong friendship.
Expressing profound gratitude for Viet Nam’s steadfast support for Cuba’s struggle to end the blockade and embargo, Fernando Gonzalez Llort affirmed that Cuba pledges to stand alongside Viet Nam in their shared journey to build a prosperous, developed, and sustainable nation, as President Ho Chi Minh always wished.
Fernando Gonzalez Llort, President of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, also shared that on September 2, Cuban-Vietnamese Friendship Centres across provinces and cities in Cuba organised meaningful activities to commemorate Viet Nam’s National Day.
