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RUSSIAN DELEGATES-VISIT-VIETNAM
Russia’s State Duma delegation arrives in Vietnam for official visit
HANOI, Dec 23,2018 (BSS/TASS)- Russia’s State Duma delegation led by Speaker
Vyacheslav Volodin arrived on an official two-day official visit to Vietnam
on Sunday. During the first day of the visit the Russian delegates laid
wreaths at the mausoleum of Vietnam’s first president Ho Chi Minh and also a
memorial to the killed heroes, which was opened in 1994 on occasion of the
40th anniversary of Vitnam’s victory over the colonial French forces in Dien
Bien Phu. Besides, the delegation also visited the Ho Chi Minh memorial
complex and saw his flat, a summer house and an automobile park.
On Monday, Volodin will hold bilateral meetings with the general secretary of
Vietnam’s Communist Party, President Nguyen Phu Trong and Prime Minister
Nguyen Xuan Phuc. “A meeting will also be held with President of Vietnam’s
National Assembly [unicameral parliament] Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan. The sides will
discuss issues of bilateral cooperation between Russia and Vietnam, including
the parliamentary framework. The sides plan to sign regulations of the inter-
parliamentary commission on cooperation between the State Duma and Vietnam’s
National Assembly,” the press service said.
The last visit of the State Duma speaker to Vietnam took place over four
years ago. On December 2-3, 2014, then-Speaker Sergey Naryshkin visited
Hanoi. In February 2017, the delegation of Russia’s Federation Council (upper
house of parliament) led by Chairperson Valentina Matviyenko paid an official
visit to Vietnam.
BSS/TASS/RQ/17:07HRS