He was receiving Geetesh Sharma, president of the India-Vietnam Solidarity Committee, who led a delegation to Vietnam .
Sang affirmed the two countries have developed their traditionalrelations based on the foundation set up by their two former leaders, HoChi Minh and Jawaharlal Nehru.
He said the twocountries have improved their cooperation in the fields of politics,economics, national defence, culture and education, especially since theestablishment of their strategic partnership in July 2007.
He said the two countries’ cooperation agreements reached recently inpetroleum, aviation, research, education, agriculture and culture and amemorandum of understanding on Vietnam-India Friendship Year 2012 willboost their comprehensive ties.
He expressed hiswish that during this trip, the president and other members of thedelegation will put forward more initiatives and effective methods tostrengthen relations between the committee and Vietnam’s people’sorganisations as well as deepen the two countries’ strategicpartnership.
Geetesh Sharma expressed his hope thatVietnam ’s relevant agencies will keep creating favourable conditionsfor the committee to contribute more towards the two countries’relations. He said the committee has held a lot of activities to boostthe Indian people’s understanding of Vietnam.-VNA