Prime Minister inspects Kilo ship crew training
According to the announcement from the Kaliningrad Province Press Agency, within the framework of his official visit to the Russian Federation, on May 13, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung will lead a Vietnamese delegation to visit Kaliningrad Province.
As planned, Kaliningrad Governor Nikolai Tsukanov and Baltic Fleet Commander Viktor Kravchuk will welcome Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung at the airport.
Immediately after the welcoming ceremony, the Vietnamese delegation will go straight to the Western shipbuilding and repair plant in Svetly city to inspect the Kilo submarine that Russia built for the Vietnamese Navy under a contract signed in 2009, which is in the testing process.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung will also inspect the training of Vietnamese sailors.
Leaving Svetly city, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung will return to Pedisson hotel and then meet with Kaliningrad Governor Nikolai Tsukanov.
Cultural and business cooperation issues will be the topic of discussion between Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and Mr. Nikolai Tsukanov.
Previously, on the evening of May 12 (Vietnam time), Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and the Vietnamese delegation arrived in Moscow, the capital of the Russian Federation, beginning an official visit to the Russian Federation from May 12-15 at the invitation of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung's visit to the Russian Federation aims to affirm the importance and desire to continuously develop the Vietnam-Russian Federation Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.
2012 marked an important development in the Vietnam-Russia bilateral relationship with the two countries upgrading their relationship to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.
In recent times, the two countries have exchanged many delegations at all levels, effectively implemented cooperation mechanisms, especially the Intergovernmental Committee on economic-trade and scientific-technical cooperation, annual strategic dialogue on diplomacy-defense-security, periodic political consultations between the two Ministries of Foreign Affairs.../.
According to (Vietnam+) - LT
