Top Vietnamese legislator holds talks with Speaker of Russian Federation Council

Tran reiterated that the Party, State and people of Viet Nam treasure the friendship and faithful relations with Russia.

Viet Nam expects to bolster cooperation with Russia in the fields of economy, trade, investment, including oil and gas, and energy, defense-security, science, education-training, culture, sports, tourism, health and locality-to-locality partnerships, he noted.

These cooperation areas have been the solid pillars in the bilateral ties in recent times and need to be upheld and further promoted in the coming time, said Tran.

Regarding inter-parliamentary cooperation, Tran asserted that Viet Nam attaches importance to the role of the Federation Council as well as highly values the role and important contributions of Matvienko to fostering bilateral relations, including cooperation between the two countries' legislatures.

Matvienko, for her part, warmly welcomed the high-ranking delegation of the Vietnamese NA's official visit to Russia.

Russia attaches great importance to this visit, she said, expressing her belief that it will not only help expand interparliamentary cooperation but also further promote the Viet Nam-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership.

At the talks, the two leaders pledged to promote and expand cooperation on par with the tradition and comprehensive strategic partnership; uphold the achievements based on trust and existing cooperation frameworks; and coordinate to organize practical activities to celebrate the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations in 2025.

The two sides will continue to increase the exchange of delegations at all levels to continuously consolidate and promote practical and effective cooperation through the Party, National Assembly, Government and people-to-people exchange channels, they stated.

They vowed to work closely to monitor and hasten the implementation of the cooperation agreements signed by the two Governments and strategic cooperation projects; build and perfect a favorable legal corridor that enables the Governments, localities, businesses and people of the two countries to increase exchanges and collaboration on the basis of mutual benefit.

Following the talks, top legislators signed a cooperation agreement between the Vietnamese NA and the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of Russia. They also witnessed the signing of a cooperation deal between Ba Ria-Vung Tau province and Rostov Oblast.

The same day, Chairman of the Vietnamese NA Tran Thanh Man and Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Victorovich Volodin co-chaired the third session of the Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation Committee between the Vietnamese NA and the State Duma./.