President Nguyen Minh Triet has highlighted visiting Kalmyk President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov’s activities to boost the cooperation between Vietnam and Kalmykia.

At a reception in HCM City on August 29, the Vietnamese State leader took the occasion to thank Ilyumzhinov and the Kalmyk people for their warm welcome during his visit to the Republic of Kalmykia in May.

Vietnam will support Ilyumzhinov to be a candidate to the President of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) for the next tenure, affirmed President Triet.

Kalmyk President Ilyumzhinov thanked President Triet for his warm welcome and conveyed the thanks of the Kalmyk people to the Vietnamese President and people their fine sentiments towards the Republic of Kalmykia and Russia .

He affirmed that President Triet’s visit to the Republic of Kalmykia last May has left good impressions on the Kalmyk people.

President Ilyumzhinov proposed to cooperate with Vietnam in rice production for sales in Russia and republic countries of the former Soviet Union.

He also proposed Vietnam to make its goods enter the Russian and European markets through Kalmykia and put forward initiative for both sides to cooperate in building the Vietnamese street and garment workshops in Kalmykia.

As FIDE President, Ilyumzhinov conveyed greetings from FIDE’s chess players and chess federation members to President Triet who has assisted the development of chess in Vietnam .

He said he was impressed at the development of chess in Vietnam, especially its chess players’ recent achievements./.