Russia, Vietnam have good potentialities to build up cooperation
HANOI - Russia and Vietnam have favorable prospects and potentialities for enhancing interaction in every direction of bilateral cooperation, Russian Deputy head of Government Viktor Khristenko declared during his meeting with Vietnamese colleague Vu Khoan.
The two vice-premiers are the co-chairmen of the Russian-Vietnamese intergovernmental commission for trade, economic, scientific and technological cooperation.
Russia attaches great significance to the enhancement and further development of the time-tested reliable partnership relations with Vietnam. “We are interested both in the continuation of cooperation in all traditional directions, such as the oil and gas industry, power engineering and machine-building, and in the development of interaction in new directions,” said Viktor Khristenko.
Among the most promising fields of bilateral partnership, he named nuclear power engineering and the sphere of telecommunications, in which two major projects will begin to be implemented within the next few years – the construction of Vietnam’s first nuclear power station and the launch of the Vinasat communications satellite.
According to Khristenko, Russia is interested in taking part in these projects and is ready to discuss with Vietnam all aspects related to these projects.
Itar Tass - February 16, 2004.
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