Vietnam places importance on developing comprehensive strategic partnership with Russia
VOV.VN - Vietnam attaches importance to consolidating and developing its comprehensive strategic partnership with Russia, while always identifying relations with Russia as being of strategic importance and one of the top priorities in its foreign policy.
This affirmation was made by Party General Secretary and President To Lam during a phone call held with Russian President Vladimir Putin on August 8 in Hanoi.
After sending a congratulatory letter, President Putin proposed a phone call to directly congratulate the Vietnamese leader on being elected General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV).
President Putin recalled the good memories of his recent visit to Vietnam, thanked General Secretary and President Lam for his warm welcome and appreciated the substantive exchanges held alongside Vietnamese leaders during the visit.
President Putin wished General Secretary and President Lam many successes in his noble position and expressed his confidence that he will be able to lead the Party, State, and people of Vietnam to continue to be more successful in the cause of Party building, as well as national construction and development to become increasingly prosperous.
Lam sincerely thanked President Putin and other leaders for sending letters of condolence and a delegation to attend the State funeral of the late General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, strongly and deeply demonstrating the high level of relations between the two countries. This is along with the special affection held by President Putin and Russian leaders for the late General Secretary Trong, as well as for the Party, State, and people of Vietnam.
He affirmed that the late General Secretary was an exceptionally outstanding leader with great prestige for the Party, State, and people of Vietnam. During nearly 60 years of engaging in revolutionary activities, he tirelessly devoted himself and made great contributions to the glorious revolutionary cause of the Party and the Vietnamese people, devoting plenty of affection, enthusiasm, and efforts to foster the traditional friendship and comprehensive strategic partnership between the two nations.
General Secretary and President Lam thanked President Putin for sending a letter and holding a phone call to congratulate him on his election as General Secretary of the CPV Central Committee.
He affirmed that the country consistently implements a foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, multilateralization, and diversification of foreign relations, as well as continuing to attach importance to consolidating and developing the comprehensive strategic partnership with Russia. Indeed, it always identifies ties with Russia as being of strategic importance and being one of the top priorities in its external policy.
He expressed his belief that the relationship between the two countries will increasingly develop, bringing about practical benefits to the people of the two countries, thereby contributing to peace and development in the region and the wider world.
The two leaders agreed that the Vietnam-Russia co-operation relationship has developed very well and recorded many important results across a variety of fields, especially defence, security, energy, oil and gas, and trade.
To continue strengthening the Vietnam - Russia Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in an increasingly effective and substantive manner, the two leaders discussed and agreed upon a number of major orientations which will be realized in the near future within the framework of bilateral and multilateral co-operation.
Amid the warm atmosphere of the exchange, President Putin expressed his joy and looked forward to welcoming General Secretary and President Lam visiting Russia soon.
