01 December 2016

News Story: Vietnam hopes to boost all-round ties with Russia

Havana (VNA) – Vietnam is determined to continue strengthening the comprehensive strategic cooperation with Russia, especially in politics, economy-trade, investment, security-defence, education-training, science-technology and culture-tourism, National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan affirmed. 

The Vietnamese top legislator made the statement during a meeting with Speaker of Russia's State Duma Vyateslav Volodin on November 30 in Havana, Cuba, where she was there to attend the funeral of Cuba’s revolutionary leader Fidel Castro Ruz. 

The two sides highlighted the effective and practical cooperation between the two legislative bodies, saying that the two sides have regularly maintained dialogue mechanisms and close coordination at international parliament forums like the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA), and the Asia-Europe Parliamentary Partnership (ASEP) Meeting.

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