General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and State President To Lam, his spouse and a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation laid a wreath at the monument of Jose Marti, a Cuban national hero, in Havana on September 26. They observed a minute of silence in memory of the Cuban hero, who sowed the seeds of friendship between the two nations in the late 19th century. The Vietnamese leader, his spouse and the delegation arrived in Havana on September 25 evening (local time), beginning a state visit to Cuba.Source: Vietnam News Agency