Vietnam Donates 5,000 Tons of Rice to Cuba

Authorities from Vietnam and Cuba signed a document for the delivery of 5,000 tons of Vietnamese rice to Cuba, as a donation. In the ceremony for the signing of the donation document at the host building of the Cuban Foreign Trade and Investment Ministry (MINCEX) was Vietnamese National Reserve General Director Pham Phan Dung, accompanied by other Vietnamese executives.

Rigoberto Noa, Minrex director for Commercial Policies with Asia and Oceania and other executives were representing the Cuban part.

Vietnamese Ambassador in Cuba Doung Minh and Cuban enterprise ALIMPORT director Ariel Fiallo were other executives present in the ceremony.

This delivery made at the port of the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba, materializes a donation announcement realized in September, 2015, during the visit of the President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Truong Tan Sang.

The parts highlighted the excellent bonds of friendship and economic - commercial cooperation between Vietnam and Cuba, and the struggle vocation for the liberation and consolidation of both nations.

Phan Dung expressed that Cuba is a leader in favor of the independence and the national construction of its country, of which they are eternally grateful, for the help of the Caribbean island during the war and the reconstruction.

Pham Dung certified that in the most recent years Vietnam supports Cuba for the solution of its difficulties and the managers' exchange of high status grows in this exchange, with periodic visits.

He said that in the period 2016-2020 they develop joint projects of economic collaboration as it is the case of the support to the rice production in this archipelago, and a Vietnamese company already has dealings in the Area of Special Development of the Mariel for nappies.

For his part, Noa was grateful for the Vietnamese gesture and emphasized the increasing interest of companies of this Asian country to invest in Cuba.

He showed as well as Cuba cooperates with Vietnam in the production of medicines and vaccines, only someone in its type.