Expert believes that development of relations between Russian and Vietnamese regions will strengthen trade ties.
2024-06-18 11:33
As part of Vladimir Putin's visit to the country, an agreement is expected to be signed between the Russian-Vietnamese Guild of Commerce and the central Vietnamese province of Thừa Thiên Huế.
Strengthening direct relations between regions of the Russian Federation and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV) will create opportunities for expansion and further development of trade and economic ties between Russia and Vietnam. This opinion was expressed by the Chairman of the Russian-Vietnamese Guild of Commerce (RVGC) Alexander Karpov in a conversation with a TASS correspondent on the eve of the Russian President Vladimir Putin's state visit to Vietnam on June 19-20.
A. Karpov has said the following “We believe that precisely strengthening and development of relations between the regions of the two countries will become a bridge for intensification and further expansion of trade, economic and investment ties between Russia and Vietnam as a whole.” He announced that during the state visit of the Russian President Vladimir Putin, the agreement on mutual understanding and cooperation is expected to be signed between the RVGC and the central Vietnamese province of Thừa Thiên Huế. The subject of this agreement is the development of Russian-Vietnamese cooperation in the fields of trade, economy, and organizing joint efforts in order to strengthen cooperation in all areas of mutual interest, including the fields of information technologies, such as high-speed communication, smart automation systems, and development of digital transformation models.“ In this context, the Russian-Vietnamese Guild of Commerce, which has already signed agreements with 17 constituent entities of the Russian Federation on cooperation and promotion of Russian regions to Asian markets, will become a window of opportunity for exporting both Russian goods and investment opportunities to the Vietnamese market and vice versa,” as noted by the Chairman of RVGC.
He expressed confidence that Russia's ambitions of creating new trade and economic cooperation routes with a focus on the eastern direction may become a platform for improving Russian-Vietnamese relations, with the goal of further developing its own eastern regions, as well as intensification activities in the Vietnamese direction as a whole. “In the newly shifted world order, the eastern vector of Russia's foreign policies is rapidly becoming a major factor, and Vietnam has traditionally been our strategic partner in the Asian region,” the RVGC Chairman emphasized.
The Russian President Vladimir Putin will pay state visit to Vietnam on June 19-20. Hanoi will host meetings with the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong, the President to Lam, the Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and the National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Manh. The negotiations are expected to focus on developing the partnership between Moscow and Hanoi. The negotiations will result in the adoption of a joint statement and the signing of a number of bilateral documents.