Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and his senior delegation arrived in Moscow on November 23 for their official visit to Russia at the invitation of President Vladimir Putin.
Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and his senior delegation arrived in Moscow on November 23 for their official visit to Russia at the invitation of President Vladimir Putin.
The delegation was warmly welcomed by the Russian President's Special Representative Igor Morgulov, Russian Ambassador to Vietnam, ASEAN Ambassadors to the Russian Federation along with numerous Vietnam embassy staff and Vietnamese community representatives waving flags of Vietnam and Russia to greet the Party chief and other distinguished guests.
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This is the first time Trong has visited Russia in his capacity as the Party General Secretary. During the visit, the Party chief is scheduled to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and meet with other Russian parliamentary and government leaders with a view to furthering cooperative ties between the two nations in politics, economics, trade, investment, energy, oil and gas, nuclear power, security-defence and more.
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Trong and Russian leaders are to compare notes on international and regional issues of shared concern and ways to strengthen people-to-people exchange as well as cooperation between localities thereby contributing to a further uplift in the Vietnam-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership.
On the same day, Trong and his entourage laid wreaths at the monument to President Ho Chi Minh in Moscow, visited the Hanoi-Moscow cultural and trade centre and met embassy staff and Vietnamese community representatives.
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On the occasion, Industry and Trade Minister Vu Huy Hoang is set to work with Andrei Slepnev, Minister of Trade for the Eurasian Economic Commission and chief negotiator of the Customs Union of Russia - Belarus- Kazakhstan.
(Source:VOV)
