(VOVworld) - Former Soviet’s military assistance to Vietnam during the war is a symbol of friendship between Vietnam and the former Soviet Union including Kazakhstan, State President Truong Tan Sang told Tadiyev Flyur, former Soviet military expert, in Hanoi on Friday. 

Tadiyev Flyur trained many Vietnamese pilots during the war. His work received praises from both Vietnamese and the then Soviet military leaders. Upon return to his homeland in Kazakhstan as Lieutenant Colonel, he continued to do his positive part to the friendship between the two countries. 

The guest expressed his pleasure at Vietnam’s rapid development and thanked Vietnamese government for arranging his visit to Vietnam, where he spent young days with his fellows.-