The Vietnamese government sent a news that Russian President Putin has been invited by the Vietnamese President Wu Wen, and "soon" will visit Hanoi.
Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday (October 18) that Wuwen Awards and Putin held bilateral meetings during the third "Belt and Road" International Cooperation Summit Forum in Beijing.Wuwen appreciated that Vietnam has always regarded Russia as one of the most important partners.
The Vietnamese government issued a statement saying that Putin also issued an invitation from Wuwen to visit Russia.
The statement added that Vietnam hopes to strengthen the "comprehensive strategic partnership" with Russia, saying that the leaders of the two countries have also discussed the issue of expanding cooperation in the fields of trade, security, national defense, technology and education.
The Russian Embassy in Hanoi has not yet commented on this.
In September this year, when the United States and Vietnam established the tenth anniversary of the establishment of a comprehensive partnership between the two countries, they announced the official upgrading of bilateral relations to "comprehensive strategic partnerships" and reached one in key areas such as semiconductors, technology, aviation and infrastructure construction.Series cooperation agreement.
In Vietnam's diplomatic relations framework, the highest level is "comprehensive strategic partnership", followed by "strategic partnership", and then "comprehensive partnership".The United States and Vietnam were previously comprehensive partnerships and were lower levels. China and Russia had established a comprehensive strategic partnership with Vietnam earlier, which is two levels higher than the United States and Vietnam.