Cuban hero Fernando González Llort, President of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), has described the upcoming state visit to Cuba by Party General Secretary and State President To Lam as a milestone in the time-honoured relationship between the two countries.

The Cuban Embassy hosted a ceremony in Hanoi on September 12 to celebrate Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro's first visit to Vietnam and the liberated zone in Southern Vietnam 50 years ago (September 12, 1973 - 2023), and launch a photo exhibition themed "Great victory of Vietnam and Cuba".

The official visit to Cuba from April 18-23 by National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue will surely have important contributions to strengthening, consolidating, expanding and deepening the bilateral relations in all fields, said Vietnamese Ambassador to Cuba Le Thanh Tung.

Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz leading a high-level Government delegation of Cuba arrived in Hanoi late September 28, beginning an official friendship visit to Vietnam at the invitation of his Vietnamese counterpart Pham Minh Chinh.

Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc held telephone talk with First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (CPC) Central Committee and President of Cuba Miguel Díaz-Canel on August 23 to seek measures to further promote special traditional ties between the two Parties, States and people.

National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan and her Cuban counterpart Esteban Lazo Hernandez agreed to enhance legislative ties between Vietnam and Cuba through the exchange of all-level delegations and experience sharing.

Vice Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City’s Party Committee Vo Thi Dung on October 15 met with a visiting delegation from the Cuba’s Young Communist League led by Second Secretary Ronald Hidalgo.