Tegucigalpa, March 3. The President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, and his wife, Vice-President Rosario Murillo, congratulated this Friday Vo Van Thuong, elected Thursday by the National Assembly of Vietnam as the new president of the Asian country.
“It was with great joy that we celebrated your election yesterday at the session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, confirming, together with our heroic peoples, the historic strength of our revolutionary ties,” Ortega and Murillo wrote in a letter. to Thung and sent to the media.
The Nicaraguan presidential couple wished “admirable Vietnam, to you, to the Central Committee, to the Party and to all Vietnamese families, health, well-being and prosperity which they rightly deserve”.
“United, as always, for a world of justice and peace, receive our admiration, our respect and our affection,” they added.
Nicaragua and Vietnam established diplomatic relations in 1979, after the Sandinistas overthrew the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza Debayle by force of arms.
The Communist Party of Vietnam and the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) of Nicaragua maintain close relations.
The new Vietnamese president, appointed by the Central Committee of the Communist Party, is at 52 the youngest member of the Politburo – the highest governing body of the party – and is perceived by experts as a man close to the secretary general of the organization. , veteran Nguyen. Phu Trong, 79 years old.
Vo Van Thuong was elected after his predecessor resigned in January over corrupt practices under his command, the Vietnamese government reported. EFE
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