Hanoi (VNA) – Vice Chairman of the National Assembly (NA) Nguyen Khac Dinh on November 7 chaired an online meeting between the Vietnam – Russia Parliamentary Friendship Group of the Vietnamese NA and the Group for Cooperation with the Vietnamese NA of the Russian Federation Council.
The meeting discussed the preparations for the coming visit by the Group for Cooperation with the Vietnamese NA and some other issues.
Dinh asked the two sides to soon reach consensus on the time for the trip, stressing the NA’s readiness for coordination to ensure the best possible conditions for the Russian delegation and substantive results for their meetings.
He expressed his belief that the visit by the Group for Cooperation with the Vietnamese NA will be a success, helping to further enhance relations between the two parliaments as well as the two peoples while opening up new opportunities for fruitful cooperation.
For his part, Andrey Vladimirovich Yatskin, First Deputy Speaker of the Russian Federation Council and head of the Group for Cooperation with the Vietnamese NA, offered sympathies to Vietnamese people on the losses triggered by the recent storms and floods.
He highlighted that the two countries’ Comprehensive Strategic Partnership has continued to flourish over the past years as seen in the mutual visits by the two sides’ leaders, all-level delegation exchanges, along with in-person and online meetings.
Describing the year 2025 as significant when the two countries celebrate the 75th anniversary of diplomatic ties, Yatskin affirmed that interparliamentary collaboration, one of the important pillars of the Vietnam – Russia friendship and cooperation, has been continuously strengthened over the recent past. In 2024, NA Chairman Tran Thanh Man and Speaker of the Russian Federation Council Valentina Ivanovna Matvienko signed a cooperation agreement between the two sides.
Dinh highly valued the contributions by the Russian Federation Council to parliamentary diplomacy as well as the overall friendship and cooperation between the two countries.
The agreement between the Vietnamese NA and the Russian Federation Council features 10 contents and 25 concrete activities, he noted, adding that many of them have reaped positive results so far.
Echoing the view, Yatskin called on both sides to keep fostering bilateral relations, including parliamentary diplomacy, in an increasingly substantive and effective manner./.
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