Russian premier to Vietnam
The Russian prime minister, Victor Chernomyrdin, arrives in Vietnam today
Monday for a visit aimed at revitalizing the two countries' economic
relationship.
Until the late nineteen-eighties, Moscow was the largest investor in
Vietnam, its biggest source of foreign aid and a key military partner.
But relations cooled after the collapse of communism in Europe.
Last week, Mr Chernomyrdin said one important issue would be the question of
Vietnam's debt to Russia -- estimated by Russian officials to be about
seventeen-billion dollars.
BBC - Nov 23, 1997
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