(KPL/Prensa Latina) The Lao-Cuban Friendship Association (LCFA) has voiced its solidarity and support towards the heroic Cuban people, “currently struggling with a difficult situation, from which they are to come out victorious”.

 “We are convinced that with their traditional capacity, responsibility and patriotic spirit, coupled by most effective and collective efforts, under the leadership of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), they will prevail over these temporary hardships and overcome all challenges,” the LCFA statement said.

The message, addressed to Fernando Gonzalez, President of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with Peoples (ICAP), stresses that the Laotian people are “aware of the most difficult and critical moment” the Caribbean nation is going through.

The critical energy situation that Cuba has been experiencing in the last few days comes to aggravate the already existing hardships, deriving from the aggressive policy and genocidal blockade of the United States, as well as the Caribbean nation’s inclusion in Washington’s State Sponsors of Terrorism (SSOT) list, the text, signed by LCFA President Chaleun Yiapaoheu, noted.

Cuban Ambassador to Laos, Enna Viant, in turn, thanked the Vientiane authorities for the consistent support to her country.

The diplomat made these statements during a friendly meeting held on Tuesday to present a bilingual edition of the chapter “Solidarity” from the book “Memoirs of a Cuban Doctor,” by Dr. Julio Lopez.

Launched in the presence of Deputy Agriculture and Forestry Minister Chanthakhone Boualaphanh, the volume describes the vision of the chief of the first medical brigade sent by Cuba in September 1973 to the liberated zone of Laos, where he worked for 16 months.

KPL