Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son greets Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of Russia Konstantin Kosachev, September 27, 2021. (Photo: VOV)

Kosachev said Russia’s upper house backs the Vietnam-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership in all spheres, as well as accelerating the ratification and implementation of all agreements between the two nations. He vowed to do his best to speed up deliveries of the Sputnik V vaccine to Vietnam.

Minister Son asked the Federal Council to support collaboration between Vietnamese and Russian localities and back people-to-people exchanges.

The same day, Mr. Son visited Vietnam’s military attaché office in Moscow, laid flowers at the Ho Chi Minh monument, visited the Monument to Unknown Martyrs, and met representatives of the Vietnamese community in Russia and staff of the Vietnam Embassy in Russia.