Vietnamese Minister of Public Security General To Lam (R) and Russian Minister of Emergency Situations Sen. Lieut. Gen Kurenkov Aleksandr Vyacheslavovich at their meeting in Hanoi on November 9 (Photo: VNA) Lam affirmed that Vietnam values working together with Russia to strengthen the bilateralfriendship, making it more effective, substantive, and sustainable.
The Russian ministry has helped the MPS trainfirefighters and search and rescue forces, provided it with scientificdocuments and shared experience in training methods.
Vyacheslavovich stressed that the close collaboration,particularly in firefighting, and search and rescue operations, as well asexperience exchange in emergency preparedness and response has contributed todeepening the time-honoured friendship between the two countries.
Host and guest consented to increase all-leveldelegation exchanges, share experience in building early warning centres, andtransfer technologies in fire prevention and control, and search and rescue.
The two sides will establish a joint research groupto coordinate and share information to complete the legal system on firefighting,and search and rescue operations.
In August 2022, the two ministries signed amemorandum of understanding on the exchange of experience in emergencypreparedness and response./.