HAVANA, Cuba.- Cuba aims to achieve an exchange that exceeds 500 million dollars with Vietnam, Cuban Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment Rodrigo Malmierca said during the opening of the intergovernmental Commission between the two nations.

According to the official, although bilateral economic relations are consolidated and diversified maintaining their special and strategic character, in order to achieve this purpose it will be necessary to increase Cuban exports.

The working sessions are attended by strong delegations from both countries, Malmierca highlighted, and also pondered the progress in the construction of important investment projects.

The relations between Cuba and Vietnam are characterized by political confidence and solidarity between their parties, Governments and peoples, which was endorsed by important State visits.

A historical cooperation

Examples of the deep ties between Cuba and Vietnam is the visit to the island by current President Nguyen Phu Trong last March, when he was Secretary General of the Communist Party, and the one recently carried out by Cuban leader Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez to the Indochinese territory.

During the aforementioned visits, important agreements of an economic-commercial nature were signed, within which the rubric of a new agreement stands out, which will contribute to continue expanding and diversifying exchanges.

Rodrigo Malmierca, Cuban Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, considered that the work to update the bilateral economic agenda will begin next year.

The 36th Cuban-Vietnamese intergovernmental Commission had the first of its activities yesterday, with the beginning of the construction of the concessionaire of that Asian country.