Vientiane Capital, 26 November 2016
Comrade Raul Castro Ruz,
First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba,
President of the Councils of State and Ministers of the Republic of Cuba
in Havana
Dear Comrade,
We have learned with profound sadness of the passing away of Comrade, Fidel Castro Ruz, former First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, President of the Councils of State and Ministers of the Republic of Cuba on the 25th November 2016.
On behalf of the Central Committee of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party, President of the Lao People Democratic Republic, the Government, the Lao National Assembly and on our own behalf, we would like to convey ours deepest condolences and sympathy to Comrade and through you to the Party, the Government and the Cuban fraternal People. We would specially like to share the profound sadness with Comrade Fidel Castro Ruz’s family.
The passing away of Comrade Fidel Castro Ruz is of a great loss to the Cuban Revolutionary Party, Government and the Cuban Fraternal People and it is indeed a great loss to the Lao Revolution Party, Government and the Lao people.
With highest consideration,
Bounnhang VORACHIT
Secretary General of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party,
President of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic
Thongloun SISOULITH
Prime Minister of the Lao PDR
Pany YOTHORTOU
President of the National Assembly of the Lao PDR