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Vietnam, Russia foster cooperation

Vietnam: Vietnam is aiming at stronger strategic cooperation with Russia, mainly in oil and nuclear energy.

This is a widespread opinion here in the wake of a visit by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to Hanoi over the weekend, including meetings with all top Vietnamese leaders.

In official talks with Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem, the parties reviewed energy collaboration, mainly in oil prospecting and exploitation in the Vietnamese sea platform.

Khiem expressed Russia's willingness to have a more significant role in key Vietnamese energy, infrastructural and high technology projects.

As a strategic partner of the Russian Federation in the Asia-Pacific region, Vietnam witnessed a 30-percent growth in bilateral trade in 2008, reaching $1.50 billion.

Crude oil and gas are key bilateral cooperation fields. The Vietsovpetro joint venture has been operating in Vietnam for over 30 years and its peer, recently created Rusvietpetro is expected to exploit fields in the Russian Yamuko-Nenetshki region.

The use of atomic energy for peaceful purposes looms large as a field of cooperation with broad prospects in the wake of the signing of a memorandum between Russian state-run Rosatom Corporation and the Vietnamese Ministry of Science and Technology, in the presence of Khiem and Lavrov.

In remarks about his visit, Lavrov said that the Moscow-Hanoi strategic alliance will reach its 60th anniversary in 2010, which will be a golden opportunity for a visit to Vietnam by President Dmitri Medvedev.

Hanoi, Prensa Latina

 

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