Viet Nam to continue supply rice to Cuba
Viet Nam will continue to provide rice to Cuba under governmental and company contracts in 2008 with the same volume and conditions as in 2007, said a Vietnamese government official on September 26. At the 25th session of the Viet Nam-Cuba Joint Committee which opened in Havana on September 26, Construction Minister Nguyen Hong Quan, who is a co-President of the joint committee and co-chairman of the session, further informed that encouraged by the results of the project on household-based rice farming in Cuba, the Vietnamese Government decided to increase its financial assistance to the project’s third phase by ten fold.
Ricardo Cabrisas, Cuban Minister of Government, co-President of the joint committee and co-chairman of the session affirmed that the session would open a new period for expansion of bilateral economic relations.
On behalf of the Cuban people, Minister Ricardo Cabrisas thanked the Vietnamese Government for providing rice to Cuba.-(VNA)
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