Senior leaders welcome Russian President

(VOV) - The visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin will help strengthen the time-honoured friendship and comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong said.

At a reception for the Russian President on November 12, Trong described his trip as fresh impetus to fostering the dynamic development of Vietnam-Russian traditional friendship and strategic partnership.

He affirmed Vietnam’s willingness to support Russian policy towards the Asian Pacific region and Southeast Asia including Vietnam and applauded Russia’s contributions to ensuring peace, security, cooperation and development in the region and in the East Sea.


The Party leader thanked Russia for creating favourable conditions for the Vietnamese community in the country to maintain their stable lives and serve as a bridge for the promotion of friendship between the two nations.

For his part, Russian President Putin hailed the results of bilateral cooperation and expressed his belief in bright prospects for wider cooperation in economics, trade, investment, security, defence, military technique, education-training, culture and tourism.

Russia attaches importance to developing comprehensive strategic partnership with Vietnam and regards the Southeast Asian nation as its priotized partner in the Asian Pacific region, the Russian state leader said.

He said he hopes under the leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), Vietnamese people will reap still greater achievements in socio-economic development which will help raise its international status.

Putin invited Trong to visit Russia in the time ahead and his invitation was accepted with pleasure.

Meeting with the Russian State leader the same day, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said his visit will provide a springboard for further push up the Vietnam-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership.

The Vietnamese Government will do all they can to work with its Russian counterpart to implement properly all cooperation agreements as agreed, adding that the two governments should include these  agreements to the annual list of priorities, allowing the Inter-Governmental Committee to review the implementation of the agreements every year, Dung said.

He affirmed that his government will offer the best possible conditions for Russian cooperation in trade, investment and tourism in Vietnam.


The Government leader asked the Russian side to speed up negotiations for initiating a FTA between Vietnam and the Russia-Belarus-Kazakhstan Customs Union by 2014 towards the official signing by 2015.

Russia should closely coordinate with Vietnam in the building of the first nuclear power plant in Ninh Thuan using the most advanced technology to ensure safety, he noted.

Putin said Vietnam is Russia’s key Asian Pacific partner and spoke highly of the Vietnamese Government’s efforts in bolstering economic, trade and investment cooperation.

Both side need to fully exploit each other’s markets and maximize their efforts to bring two-way trade turnover to US$7 billion by 2015, he said.

Dung and his host agreed to boost cooperation in defence, oil and gas exploration and exploitation, energy, mining and education as well as maintaining closer coordination and mutual support at international forums.

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