Special Art Program Honouring President Ho Chi Minh and Cuban Leader Fidel Castro

Delegates at the event. Photo: toquoc.vn

Chairman of the Vietnamese National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue and President of the National Assembly of People’s Power of Cuba Esteban Lazo Hernández attended a special music show in Santiago de Cuba city on April 22 (local time), which marked the 60th founding anniversary of the Cuban Committee for Solidarity with South Vietnam and the 50th anniversary of Fidel Castro Ruz’s visit to Vietnam and the newly liberated zone in Quang Tri province, VNA reported.

Fidel was the first and the only foreign leader to visit the newly-liberated area in the south of Vietnam during the anti-US resistance war.

He also took the initiative in the international movement to support Vietnam’s struggle for national independence and reunification, along with its process of national development and defence.

The park named after him in Quang Tri was inaugurated in 2018 on the occasion of the 45 years since the Cuban leader’s visit to the liberated region in southern Vietnam (now in Quang Tri province) in 1973.

Speaking at the opening ceremony, President of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with Peoples (ICAP) Fernando Gonzalez Llort, who is also a member of the National Assembly of the People´s Power of Cuba, stressed that the establishment of the Cuban Committee for Solidarity with South Vietnam, now known as the Cuba-Vietnam Friendship Association (CVFA), was initiated by Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz.

He said the committee organised various activities to show solidarity with Vietnam, including launching a mass movement to spread solidarity with Vietnam throughout the country and around the world at international forums such as the United Nations, the Non-Aligned Movement and others.

Art performance by Vietnamese artists. Photo: toquoc.vn

Cuban artists at the event. Photo: toquoc.vn

Vietnamese NA Vice Chairman Tran Quang Phuong, for his part, affirmed that Cuba has always been a sincere and reliable friend and brother who wholeheartedly supports Vietnam, especially during the hardest time for the Vietnamese revolution, Toquoc.vn reported.

Vietnam will do its best to preserve, protect, nurture and pass on the special, deep and loyal friendship between the two Parties, States and peoples to later generations, he said.

NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue presents flowers to congratulate Cuban artists. Photo: toquoc.vn

On the occasion, on behalf of Vietnamese Party and State leaders, Chairman Hue presented the Friendship Order of the Vietnamese State to the ICAP, the CVFA and ICAP President Llort. He also awarded the Friendship Medal to CVFA Vice Chairman Ruvislei González Saez.

The highlight of the program was the song “Remembering the Hero”, a special song about 1973 when President Fidel Castro visited Vietnam.

The event was the last activity of the Cuba visit by NA Chairman Hue and his entourage before they depart for an official visit to Argentina. Photo: toquoc.vn

In addition, in the program, there were also exciting and special works performed by artists of the two countries, which received the enthusiastic response of the entire audience present at the theater such as the group’s chorus named “Santiaguera”, singer Zulema Iglesias with the song “Santigao”, the city’s signature festive dance performed by the Kutumba group, or the song “Besame Mucho” performed by singer Vu Thang Loi as well as the combined dance and music performances “Rico Vacilon”, “Guantanamera” and “As if Uncle Ho were with us on Victory Day”.

The combination of performances of the two countries’ art showed the exchange, cooperation and strengthens the spirit of solidarity; cultivate and develop the special, faithful and pure friendship between the people of Vietnam and Cuba. During the program, many times delegates stood up, clapped and chanted Viva Cuba, Viva Vietnam.

Participating in this program, the people of Santiago de Cuba city also have the opportunity to visit an exhibition introducing special and typical photos of special and rare friendship between the two countries that was laid by President Ho Chi Minh and leader Fidel Castro, built with great effort, and the close connection, enhanced cooperation and development between the National Assemblies of Vietnam and Cuba.

Hannah Nguyen

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