HA NOI — The Vietnamese Party and people always did their utmost to enhance the friendship between Viet Nam and Cuba to provide practical benefits for the two countries, said Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung yesterday.

While receiving the newly-accredited Cuban Ambassador to Viet Nam, Frendesman Turro Gongalez, in Ha Noi, Dung said Viet Nam and Cuba had a fine, traditional friendship, particularly in the fields of politics and foreign affairs.

However, he said, the economic ties between the two countries had failed to match their potential.