President Sang highly valued cooperative agreements between the Supreme People’s Court of Vietnam and the Supreme Court of Russia in recent years, and emphasised strengthening and completing judicial training work as one of urgent tasks in Vietnam’s judicial reform strategy till 2020.

He supported initiatives on cooperation between the two sectors and affirmed a commitment to create favourable conditions for them to boost cooperation. 

For his part, Lebedev noted that the growing development in bilateral cooperation in was based on the traditional friendship, saying that leaders agreed to exchange expert-level delegations, increase studies in legislative and judicial areas, and expand cooperation between local courts.

He also pledged that the Supreme Court of Russia will help Vietnam to train judges and said he hopes the two justice sectors will provide mutual support and boost the strategic partnership between the two countries.