Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnam-Russia Friendship Parliamentarian Groupand the Russia-Vietnam Friendship Association have played an important role infortifying the friendship and the strategic partnership between Vietnam andRussia, Vice Chairman of the National Assembly (NA) Uong Chu Luu has said.
Attending a get-together of the Vietnam-Russia Friendship Parliamentarian Groupon November 7 on the occasion of the 101st anniversary of theRussian Revolution, Luu also suggested both sides enhance parliamentary andpeople-to-people diplomacy, especially promoting the close coordination betweenthe Vietnam-Russia Friendship Parliamentarian Group and the Russia-VietnamFriendship Parliamentarian Group.
According to President of the Vietnam-Russia Friendship Parliamentarian GroupPhan Xuan Dung, cooperative ties between the NA and the Russian FederalAssembly have enjoyed due attention, with high-level exchanges regularly held.
The exchanges are crucial for both sides to share experience in performing functionsof the legislative bodies, supervise the implementation of the bilateralagreements inked between the two Governments, and create legal environment forpartnership between localities and businesses of the two countries, Dungstressed.
At the meeting, participants highlighted the special relations with Russia aswell as Russia’s support for Vietnamese people and country.-VNA