Hanoi (VNA) – Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Chernyshenko on July 9 co-chaired an online meeting to discuss measures to promote the two countries’ practical and effective cooperation in all fields within the framework of the Vietnam-Russia intergovernmental committee on economic-trade and science-technology cooperation.
Representatives from ministries and agencies that are members of the intergovernmental committee, businesses and localities of the two countries also attended the meeting.
During the meeting, Deputy PM Ha said that Vietnamese ministries and agencies are actively implementing the results achieved within the framework of Russian President Vladimir Putin's state visit to Vietnam from June 19 - 20 at the invitation of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.
The two Deputy PMs reviewed the two countries’ cooperation and assessed the results that the two sides achieved when implementing the Minutes of the 24th meeting of the Vietnam - Russia intergovernmental committee in April 2023. They agreed to make efforts to improve the effectiveness of the bilateral cooperation, on the basis of meeting the interests of each country and the comprehensive strategic partnership between Vietnam and Russia.
The two Deputy PMs affirmed that they will direct their ministries and agencies to continue coordinating closely with each other to prepare for the 25th meeting of the intergovernmental committee which is slated to take place in 2024./.
