Sympathy to Cuba over plane crash
Hanoi (VNA) – Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on May 19 sent
a message of sympathy to Raul Castro Ruz, First Secretary of the Central
Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba over the crash of a plane of the Cubana airline on May 18.
The Boeing
737-201 aircraft crashed on the way from Havana
to Holguin on
May 18 (Cuba time), killing 107 people.
President Tran
Dai Quang and Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc also offered condolences to President of the Councils of State and Ministers of Cuba Miguel Mario Canel Bermudez, over
the accident.
Chairman of the
National Assembly Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan extended her sympathy to President of the
National Assembly of People’s Power of Cuba Esteban Lazo over the loss.
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister
Pham Binh Minh cabled his message of sympathy to Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno
Rodriguez Parilla.
The Cuban government has declared two days of national mourning for victims of the accident.-VNA