Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen and a delegation of officials are set to visit Russia in June this year to attend an inauguration ceremony of a statue of late President Ho chi Minh in Saint Petersburg.

The delegation will hold meetings to seek new cooperation between Ho Chi Minh City and Saint Petersburg and Russia as a whole, thus fostering the relations between the two countries in the coming time.

The Vietnam-Russia cooperation has ceaselessly developed despite many ups and downs and there is ample room for their further collaboration, secretary Nen said while receiving Russian Ambassador to Vietnam Gennady Stepanovich Bezdetko on Wednesday.

Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov, first deputy speaker of the Russian Federal Assembly’s Federation Council Andrey Yatskin, and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko have recently visited Vietnam.

Deputy head of the Security Council of Russia Dmitry Medvedev will pay a visit to the Southeast Asian country next month while chairman of the Russian Federal Assembly’s State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin will visit Vietnam in July.

The two sides will organize many activities, including the Russian Culture Days in Vietnam in July.

Ho Chi Minh City has been striving to develop its socio-economic infrastructure, boost digital transformation, and restructure the economy, in which Russian cities, specifically Moscow and Saint Petersburg, have strengths, secretary Nen said.

He expected Russian Ambassador to Vietnam Bezdetko to help boost the cooperation in investment, culture, and education as well as people-to-people exchanges between Russia and Vietnam.

The ambassador affirmed that the Vietnam-Russia relations remain strong amid the global volatility, adding that Russian enterprises are interested in the Vietnamese market and Russia is also willing to pave the way for Vietnamese companies to do business in its market.

Russian travelers are waiting for the reopening of direct air routes between the two countries so that they can return to Vietnam.

Bezdetko said he is willing to support Ho Chi Minh City in developing the relations with Russian localities, especially Saint Petersburg.

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