Russian President Vladimir Putin announced plans to deepen defense cooperation with Vietnam. The Russian leader reported this at a meeting in the Kremlin with the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party Vietnam, Lama.
“Our dear friend and comrade [that lam] now mentioned another direction of our interaction. He said about plans to deepen cooperation in the field of defense and security. This was not in my speech, but I confirm: there are such plans,” Putin said, bringing the lines from the song about the Workers ‘and Peasants’ Red Army.
“I mean the words of the well -known song:” From the taiga to the British seas, the Red Army of everyone is stronger, “he said.
Putin also expressed confidence that all “plans for this direction will be implemented.”
According to the president, they went into the negotiations in the “warm and constructive atmosphere”, the whole spectrum of issues of Russian-Vietnamese interaction and the international agenda was discussed in detail.
“First of all, we are talking about the further expansion of mutually beneficial economic cooperation,” he said.
Putin also noted that Russia and Vietnam are switching to national currencies in financial mutual settlements, striving to build reliable channels of the Bank-Bank cooperation. “Interaction in energy is actively advancing,” he said.
“today new agreements have been approved in the context of the implementation of mutually beneficial Russian-Vietnamese projects. In addition, the company” Zarubezhneft “will be built in the southeast of Vietnam by the sea wind station with a capacity of one thousand megavatts. Companies from Russia are also interested in the construction and modernization of hydrogenation objects available in the Republic. The agreement on the “peaceful atom” open the road to provide the country with cheap and environmentally friendly energy, ”the President of the Russian Federation continued.
According to him, Russia and Vietnam implement a number of joint infrastructure projects.
“The marine transport corridor of Vladivostok is the Hoshimin, according to which there are regular container cargo transportation. The Hoshimin has a logistics hub that consolidates goods from Thailand, Malaysia and other Southeast Asia states for their further sending to our country,” the President of the Russian Federation
In turn, the Secretary General of the Communist Party Vietnam, then Lam invited Putin to visit the country.
Following the negotiations, the parties adopted a joint declaration of the main areas of relations of a comprehensive strategic partnership at a new stage and signed a package of documents. Among them: a memorandum of cooperation in the field of tourism until 2030, “road map” in the field of peaceful atom until 2030, in general, 25 documents.
Russia and Vietnam intend to negotiate in a short time and sign an agreement on the construction of nuclear power plants in Vietnam, also follows from the declaration following bilateral negotiations.