Moscow (VNA) – A delegation of the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS) led by its President Phan Chi Hieu visited and worked with the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) on November 18 as part of its working visit to Russia.
The RAS has helped Vietnam with training a lot of experts and scientists who have made important contributions to Vietnam’s past struggle for national liberation as well as its current process of national construction and defence.
Hieu and RAS Vice President Professor Academic Vladislav Panchenko agreed that the two sides will soon sign a new cooperation agreement in 2025 which will serve a basis for them to maintain and strengthen cooperation, particularly in organising scientific seminars, proposing research projects, joint publications, and training Vietnamese experts and scientists in the field of social sciences and humanities.
The VASS is also ready to welcome and create favourable conditions for RAS scientists to do research in Vietnam, Hieu said.
On this occasion, Hieu, in his capacity as VASS President and Chairman of the Vietnam - Russia Friendship Association, invited RAS leaders to visit and work in Vietnam in 2025, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
On November 19, the VASS delegation worked with the board of directors and leaders of a number of affiliated units of the RAS's Institute of China and Contemporary Asia (ICCA), led by ICCA Director Kirill Babaev.
The two sides discussed the making of a list of common topics of mutual interest as well as organising joint scientific research activities and exchanging experts for training.
The Vietnamese delegation visited the Vietnam Chamber at ICCA, and presented dozens of books about Vietnam's economy, politics, culture and society.
In the afternoon of the same day, the delegation worked with the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA).
At the working session, Hieu and RANEPA Director Alexey Komissarov agreed to promote cooperation in training, share experience in developing master's and doctoral training programmes, improve capacity for Vietnamese managers and researchers in the field of social sciences and humanities as well as actively organising joint scientific conferences.
The delegation also visited RANEPA's precious book library with many hundred-year-old books. They were introduced to the thesis of late Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong./.
