Russian businesses and press praise Vietnam
On the afternoon of March 20, the Vietnamese Embassy in Russia held an annual meeting with representatives of Russian businesses and media.
In his opening speech at the meeting, Ambassador Pham Xuan Son reviewed the situation in Vietnam over the past year, especially the success of the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam with the approval of the strategy to develop Vietnam into an industrialized country by 2020 and the success of the new National Assembly election as well as the country's achievements in all aspects.
Regarding relations with the Russian Federation, the Ambassador emphasized that the Vietnam-Russia relationship, characterized by traditional friendship, trust, comprehensive cooperation and strategic partnership, has been raised to a new level in quality and is increasingly strengthened. The turnover of goods exchanged between the two countries in 2011 increased significantly and reached more than 2 billion USD according to Vietnam's data, and according to Russia's data, it reached about 3 billion USD.
The two countries are drafting and preparing to sign a free trade agreement (FTA) to further promote each other's potential, which both sides consider to be unworthy of the increasingly strengthened political relationship.
First Deputy General Director of the Russian News Agency ITAR-TASS, Mr. Mikhail Kalmykov, reviewed the arduous war years and emphasized the great achievements that the Vietnamese people have made during the period of peaceful construction, first of all in the Doi Moi process led by the Party.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung presses the broadcast button of the News Agency TV Channel on August 25, 2010. (Illustration photo: Duc Tam/VNA)
He declared that he was very proud of the energy projects that were the result of cooperation between the two countries that he had witnessed in the past, such as the Pha Lai Thermal Power Plant, the Hoa Binh Hydropower Plant, and the upcoming Binh Thuan Nuclear Power Plant.
The representative of the Russian news agency also highlighted the effective and increasingly "fruitful" cooperation between ITAR-TASS and VNA, praising VNA's increasingly strong development, especially in terms of technical facilities, information technology and news television.
Russian representatives including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Center for Southeast Asian and Asia-Pacific Studies, the Academy of Sciences, the Zarubezhneft Oil and Gas Group, the Our Planet TV channel (Nasa Planheta) and representatives of Vietnamese trade, economy and businesses in Russia spoke, highlighting the achievements of cooperation in recent times and the potentials that the two countries need to promote to further promote the mutually beneficial cooperation and strategic partnership between Vietnam and Russia.
Many Russian representatives who have visited Vietnam have especially praised Vietnam's landscapes, cuisine and the hospitality of the Vietnamese people. They expressed their desire to visit Vietnam again, and said they are trying to promote and attract more Russians, first of all Russian tourists, to Vietnam to travel, invest and do business./.
According to VNA
