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Nov 26, 2014 / 12:06

Strengthening Russia - Vietnam comprehensive relationship

On November 25, Party leader Nguyen Phu Trong and his delegation arrived in Sochi- a resort city where they met President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Medvedev who is also the President of the United Russia Party.

During talks with President Putin, both sides extolled the bilateral cooperation in recent years, the progress of major projects between the two countries, and compared notes on measures to boost bilateral cooperation in various areas as well as regional and global issues of shared concern.

Their discussions were also focused on the Vietnamese community in Russia and people-to-people exchange. They expressed their desire for enhanced comprehensive strategic partnership,thus contributing to regional and global peace and prosperity.
 


Meeting with the Vietnamese delegation, Prime Minister Medvedev described Trong’s visit as a driving force for elevating the Vietnam-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership to a new level and providing an opportunity for both nations to consolidate political trust, bilateral cooperation and relations between the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) and the ruling United Russia Party.

The Party chief emphasized Vietnam’s unwavering policy of respecting and promoting its comprehensive strategic partnership with Russia and considering Russia its most important and trusted partner while affirming the CPV’s wish to boost its friendship and cooperation with the United Russia Party.

The two leaders agreed to raise two-way trade volume to US$7 billion by 2015 and US$10 billion by 2020. Russia pledged to speed up Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations between Vietnam and the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.


Trong asked Russia to create the best possible conditions for the Vietnamese community to receive necessary papers to live and work in Russia in line with Russian law and work hand in hand with Vietnamese agencies to settle issues related to the Vietnamese community in Russia on the basis of the Vietnam-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership.