President Ho Chi Minh and senior Vietnamese leaders welcome the delegation of the Cuban Party and Revolutionary Government, led by President Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, during their visit to Vietnam in late October 1966. (Photo: VNA)Prime Minister Pham Van Dong and First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and Prime Minister of the Cuban Revolutionary Government Fidel Castro at a rally of the armed forces and people of Quang Tri - one of Vietnam’s fiercest wartime battlefields (September 1973). (Photo: VNA)Comrade Fidel Castro, Prime Minister of the Cuban Revolutionary Government and First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, poses for a commemorative photo during his visit to the liberated zone of South Vietnam on September 15, 1973. (Photo: VNA)On September 15, 1973, Prime Minister Pham Van Dong and First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, Prime Minister Fidel Castro, inspect the Doc Mieu military base (Photo: VNA)Comrade Fidel Castro, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee, President of the Council of State and Council of Ministers, welcomes General Secretary Nguyen Van Linh at Jose Marti airport during his official visit to Cuba from April 24–29, 1989. (Photo: VNA)President Fidel Castro presents the Jose Marti Order to Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet during his official visit to Cuba on July 7, 1993. (Photo: VNA)During his third visit to Vietnam, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, President of the Council of State and Council of Ministers Fidel Castro, visits General Vo Nguyen Giap at his residence (Hanoi, February 22, 2003). (Photo: VNA)General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong presents 5,000 tonnes of rice from the Vietnamese people to the Cuban people to Salvador Valdés Mesa, Secretary-General of the Cuban workers’ centre (Havana, April 11, 2012). (Photo: VNA)National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man presides over a welcome ceremony and talks with President of the Cuban National Assembly Esteban Lazo Hernández during his official visit to Vietnam and the second session of the Vietnam–Cuba Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (Hanoi, September 30, 2025). (Photo: VNA)Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh meets with First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of Cuba Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez (Hanoi, September 2, 2025). (Photo: VNA)General Secretary and President To Lam and First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez witness the signing of cooperation documents between the Economic Commission of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the Economic and Production Commission of the Communist Party of Cuba (Havana, September 26, 2024). (Photo: VNA)After more than three months of piloting a rice cultivation cooperation project between a Vietnamese enterprise (Agri VMA Co., Ltd.) and farmers in Pinar del Rio Province (Cuba), the first 16 hectares out of a planned 1,000 hectares of CT16 rice have exceeded expectations, achieving an average yield of more than 7.2 tonnes per hectare (March 6, 2025). (Photo: VNA)
65 years of Vietnam-Cuba relations: Shining symbol of friendship in the 21st century
Over the past 65 years, Vietnam and Cuba have always stood shoulder to shoulder, from the struggles for national independence to the challenging periods of national building and development.
