Vietnam and Cuba will expand bilateral cooperation on issues of mutual concern, based on equality, respect for independence, sovereignty, and the political systems of both nations. Vietnam and Cuba have issued a Joint Declaration to strengthen traditional solidarity, special friendship, and comprehensive cooperation in a new era.
They emphasized their commitment to carrying forward and promoting the heritage left by President Ho Chi Minh and Cuba's revolutionary leader Fidel Castro. Both sides expressed their determination to elevate their unique relationship to new heights, ensuring comprehensive, substantive, effective, and sustainable development. Both countries pledged to deepen and strengthen bilateral economic, trade, and investment cooperation. The leaders urged relevant agencies in both nations to work closely to resolve challenges and obstacles, leveraging the Vietnam-Cuba Trade Agreement to boost trade volume and diversify bilateral trade.
Cuba committed to supporting and facilitating the presence and participation of Vietnamese enterprises and projects in Cuba's economic and social development efforts. Both sides reviewed and assessed the effectiveness of recent agricultural cooperation projects, agreeing to explore new models of agricultural collaboration to help Cuba increase its production capacity and self-sufficiency. On international matters, both countries emphasized their shared perspectives on global issues of common concern.
They agreed that international disputes should be resolved peacefully, with respect to international law and the United Nations Charter. Both sides affirmed that relations between nations should be built on mutual respect for independence, sovereignty, equality, the right of peoples to self-determination, and the fundamental principles of international law, including respect for each other's territorial integrity and non-interference in domestic affairs.
The two leaders reaffirmed the inviolable right of every country to pursue development equally, in line with its national conditions, without external discrimination or interference. They also highlighted the need for responsible use of information technology, communications, the Internet of Things, and especially artificial intelligence and social media, to promote development, well-being, harmony, peace, and knowledge.
