Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee and head of the committee’s Theory Council Nguyen Xuan Thang, Vice President of the Communist Party of Russia and Vice Chairman of the Russia’s State Duma Committee for External Affairs Dmitry Novikov and delegates at the meeting (Photo: VNA) Moscow (VNA) – Secretary of the Communist Partyof Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee and head of the committee’s Theory CouncilNguyen Xuan Thang had a meeting on November 27 in Moscow with Vice President ofthe Communist Party of Russia and Vice Chairman of the Russia’s State DumaCommittee for External Affairs Dmitry Novikov.
Thang, who is also Director of the Ho Chi Minh NationalAcademy of Politics, congratulated the Communist Party of Russia for itssuccess of the September election, especially in the legislative bodies ofMoscow and Khabarovsk province.
He expressed his belief that the party will continueconsolidating its firm position in the socio-political life of Russia,contributing to the development and prosperity of the country as well as thegrowth of the international communist and workers’ movement.
Thang underlined that the Communist Party of Vietnam alwaysattaches great importance to fostering its traditional friendship with theCommunist Party of Russia. He held that the partnership between the two Partiesplays an important role in the Vietnam-Russia relations.
He suggested that in the future, the two Parties willcontinue exchanging information, theory and ideology.
At the meeting, the two sides discussed the relationsbetween the two Parties and countries as well as measures to strengthen theircollaboration next year in organizing events to mark Russian leader Lenin’s 150th birthday and the 130th birthday of President Ho Chi Minh as well as75 years of victory over fascism.
Along with a number of theory issues, they also discussedinfluence of Lenin and the former Soviet Union on the growth of Russia today.
Novikov held that Lenin’s 150th birthday and the75th anniversary of victory over fascism are important events,especially in the context that there are plots of “re-writing the history”,distorting or refusing the role of the former Soviet Union and the CommunistParty of Soviet Union during the World War II.
He pledged to coordinate closely with Vietnam in holdingactivities initiated by the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics.
Earlier, on November 25, during his working visit to Russiaand Estonia,Thang visited the Estonia E-Government Centre in the country’scapital city of Tallinn where he was introduced to the process of building thestrategy for IT and e-government development of Estonia and its outcomes after25 years.
At a meeting with representatives of Estonia’s Ministry ofEconomic Affairs and Communications, the Vietnamese official was briefed on Estonia’spolicies for investment attraction and trade as well as the country’sexperience in IT application in socio-economic development./.
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