The Vietnam-Russia Tropical Centre (VRTC) will broaden its scientific and technological cooperation with other countries, including ASEAN countries.

This was agreed by the Coordinating Committee for the VRTC at its 23 rd meeting in Moscow on Nov. 26 to review the VRTC’s performance in 2010.

At the meeting, the committee made decisions relating to the perfection of management methods and measures for the VRTC and discussed themes for new joint research and research with high potential for application in real life.

It agreed to build a new research station and new ecological centres in the Bi Dup-Nui Ba and Bu Gia Map national parks in Vietnam and strengthen material and technological facilities of the VRTC.

The committee accepted the VRTC Directors Board reports on the use of the centre fund in 2010 and the establishment of the Vietnam-Russia Science and Production Joint Venture.

The committee’s co-presidents – Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Huy Hieu and Academician Dmitry Pavlop confirmed the opening of a VRTC Vietnamese representative office in Moscow .

The VRTC coordinating committee will hold its 24 th meeting in Hanoi in November 2011.

The Vietnam-Russia Tropical Centre was established in 1988 by the Vietnamese Ministry of Defence and the Russian Academy of Sciences.

A scientific research organisation, it focuses on tropical biology, medicines, and environmental pollution and treatments./.