State President Nguyen Minh Triet will attend the 65 th anniversary of the victory over fascism in Moscow and visit the Republic of Kalmykia of the Russian Federation from May 8-12.

President Triet will also visit Belarus from May 13-16, Switzerland from May 16-19 and Finland from May 19-22, the Foreign Ministry announced on May 4.

The visits are made at the invitations of Russian President D. Medvedev, Kalmykian President K. Ilyumzhinov, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Swiss President Doris Leuthard and Finnish President Tarja Halonen.