Artemisa -The "Martires de Tarara" primary school, funded by Vietnam, is a sign of the brotherhood of the Asian country with the Cuban people, an official of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), Odalys Lopez, said today.

According to Lopez, who leads the Asia and Oceania department at ICAP, the school should be opened this year in the Cuban province of Artemisa, in a community named Ben Tre after a city in southern Vietnam.

The project began in 2010 with a donation of 128,000 Euros, and took the name to honor the moral and revolutionary values of those who fell in Tarara. They fought criminals who tried to leave Cuba illegally, Lopez said.

The official told Prensa Latina that the construction had to wait for the process of dividing the Havana province into two territories, Artemisa and Mayabeque. On February 2015, authorities approved a resolution to follow up the project.

The Vietnam-Cuba Friendship Association, based in Hanoi, is also collaborating on the project. Instructions and suggestions are received from there, Lopez said.

The Association´s secretary, Nguyen Thi Huong Giang, told Prensa Latina that the idea emerged after a visit to Cuba in 2009 of the government´s representatives of the Vietnamese southern city of Ben Tree.