HANOI, February 25. /TASS/. Vietnam-Russia cooperation serves as an example of healthy international relations based on time-tested ties, Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh told TASS news agency Director General Andrey Kondrashov, now on a working visit to Vietnam at the invitation of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA).
Pham Minh Chinh said that Vietnam "consistently attaches great importance and strives for a steady development of traditional friendship and comprehensive strategic partnership with the Russian Federation in all areas in the interests of the two peoples for the sake of stability, cooperation and development in the region and the world. In the new era, Vietnamese-Russian cooperation should not only benefit the development of the two countries, but also serve as a model of healthy international relations based on time-tested ties."
Saying that Vietnam will never forget the help of the Soviet Union and Russia in the struggle for national independence, construction and development of the country, Pham Minh Chinh said that his country "always stands by the Russian Federation under any circumstances. The feelings of the Vietnamese people towards the Russian Federation and Russians towards Vietnam are an invaluable asset that current generations must continue to strengthen."
