In his opening speech, Secretary of the Party Committee in Russia Dang Huu Trung reviewed the CPV’s glorious 80-year history from the successful 1945 August Revolution to the construction of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, now renamed the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. 

He stressed that the CPV, founded by President Ho Chi Minh, has always been in the frontline of the struggles for national independence and freedom. It has really been the vanguard of the working class, the people and the nation, he said. 

According to Trung, the Party Committee in Russia, a part of the CPV organisational system abroad, has made efforts in overcoming difficulties and fulfilling political tasks, and helping strengthen the strategic partnership and comprehensive cooperation between Vietnam and Russia. 

Speaking at the ceremony, Vietnamese Ambassador Bui Dinh Dinh highlighted the traditional friendship and strategic partnership between Vietnam and Russia that has grown and flourished through the regular exchange of high-ranking visits and the development of two-way trade ties.

In 2009, two-way trade turnover between the two countries exceeded US$1.7 billion, up four percent over the previous year. 

The Ambassador informed that Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh and State President Nguyen Minh Triet will pay official visits to Russia while President Dmitry Medvedev plans to visit Vietnam this year. 

On the same day, the Vietnamese Embassy in Algeria held a meeting to mark the CPV’s 80th founding anniversary.