Vietnam and Russia need to work closely to implement agreementssigned by leaders, focusing on boosting bilateral cooperation ineconomics trade, investment, culture, education-training andscience-technology, said Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.
PM Dungasked both sides to make good preparations for the Vietnam visit byRussian Prime Minister V. Putin in July while receiving Russian DeputyForeign Minister A. Borodavkin in Hanoi on April 25.
The PMhighly valued the outcomes of the regular political consultation atdeputy foreign ministerial level between the two foreign ministries inHanoi , saying that the results showed confidence and cooperationbetween the two ministries and made contributions to the Vietnam-Russiastrategic partnership.
He affirmed Vietnam’s readiness toaccelerate the warming-up of negotiations on a free trade agreement(FTA) between Vietnam and member countries of theRussia-Belarus-Kazakhstan Customs Alliance, which is expected tofacilitate trade, investment and targets to raise two-way trade to 3billion USD by 2012 and 10 billion USD by 2020.
PM Dung saidVietnam is also ready to cooperate with Russia in aviation and spacetechnology for peaceful purposes, as well as organising the APEC 2012Summit .
Deputy FM Borodavkin informed PM Dung that during theconsultation meeting, the two sides discussed orientations and measuresto enhance bilateral cooperation and ease difficulties to accelerate theimplementation of strategic cooperation projects, especially theproject on construction of the first nuclear-power plant in Vietnam .
Bothsides supported the continued expansion of cooperation on energy andimplementing the two countries’ leaders guidelines that the head of theVietnam-Russia intergovernmental committee on economic trade andscientific-technological cooperation will be a permanent deputy primeminister/first deputy prime minister, he told PM Dung.
DuringDeputy Foreign Minister Borodavkin’s visit to Vietnam from April24-26, the Russian Deputy FM and his Vietnamese counterpart, Bui ThanhSon conducted a political consultation.
The regular politicalconsultation at deputy foreign ministerial level was to reviewsituations and discuss measures to strengthen the traditional friendshipand promote cooperation between the two countries in the context of thetwo nations celebrating the 10 th anniversary of their strategicpartnership.
Both sides agreed that the Vietnam-Russia strategic partnership is developing in a strong and comprehensive manner.
Thetwo deputy FMs highly valued the close cooperation between Vietnamand Russia at the United Nations, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation(APEC) forum and the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF).
Vietnam askedfor Russia’s support in its bid for membership of the UN Human RightsCouncil for the 2013-2016 term and as a non-permanent member of the UNSecurity Council for the 2020-2021 term and the Russians acknowledgedVietnam’s proposal./.