Vietnam and Russia have agreed to strengthen the two countries’ military technical cooperation and their defence partnership.
Deputy Minister of Defence Be Xuan Truong welcomes Russian Deputy
Director of the Federal Service for Military Technical Cooperation Vladimir
Nikolaevich Drozhzhov in Hanoi on March 6. (Photo: VNA)
The agreement was reached during a
March 6 meeting between Deputy Minister of Defence Be Xuan Truong and Russian
Deputy Director of the Federal Service for Military Technical Cooperation
Vladimir Nikolaevich Drozhzhov, who are chairmen of Vietnamese and Russian
subdivisions, respectively, of the Vietnam-Russia Inter-governmental Committee
on Military Technical Cooperation.
Welcoming Drozhzhov’s visit to Vietnam, Truong said Vietnam highly values the
Comprehensive Strategic Partnership with Russia. The Russian official, for his
part, extended his congratulations on the 30th anniversary of the
Vietnam-Russia Tropical Centre, a scientific research organisation in Vietnam
founded on March 7, 1988.
The centre was established by an agreement between Vietnam’s Ministry of
National Defence and the Russian Academy of Sciences to study biology,
medicine, environmental pollution and treatment of dioxin effects in Vietnam.
It is a symbol of the good relations between the two nations, Drozhzhov said.
The two sides expressed their delight at the progress of Vietnam-Russia
relations and appreciated the role of defence and military technical
cooperation in the partnership.
Vietnam and Russia held the 19th meeting of their Inter-governmental Committee
on Military Technical Cooperation in Hanoi on October 12, 2017, during which
the two sides discussed and reached consensus on a military technical
cooperation plan for 2018, and discussed the 2016-2020 military technical
cooperation plan.-
Source: VNA
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