Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha holds phone talks with his Russian counterpart Alexander Valentinovich Novak, February 16, 2024.

The two Deputy PMs held that the Vietnam-Russia Comprehensive Strategic Partnership with a history of more than seven decades has kept developing and achieved important results, especially within the framework of the Inter-Governmental Committee for Economic-Commercial and Scientific-Technological Cooperation.

They agreed to continue close coordination and take specific measures to step up trade and investment and further promote advantages brought by the Free Trade Agreement between Vietnam and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), especially in oil and gas, energy, tourism, education - training, and science - technology; and promptly remove obstacles in implementing cooperation projects.