QUESTION OVER DEBTS OF VIET NAM OPPOSITE RUSSIA DURING BILATERAL
NEGOTIATIONS NOT BEGUN TO CUT








HANOI, 1 March.  / RIA "Nowosti" Korr. /.  The question of the debts
of Viet Nam opposite Russia had not been discussed during the Russian
vietnamesischen negotiations.  That indicated the vice-prime minister
of Russia and chairman Viktor Christenko to the bilateral Russian
vietnamesischen commission.

He explained with the fact that all questions are solve in this
regard:  An agreement over regulation of the debts stepped not only
signatoryly, but also in strength.  Christenko stressed that the
problem of the vietnamesischen indebtedness is regulated mainly on the
basis of the principles Paris clubs.  According to this pattern the
annual payments of Viet Nam at Russia constitute approximately 100
million dollar.

Additionally the agreement designates the possibility for the
repayment of a section of the vietnamesischen debts by the supplies
from goods to Russia, the reinvestment into common economic projects
in Viet Nam as well as a conto the payment of the formation of
vietnamesischer specialists in Russia.

Viktor Christenko indicated that the debts of Viet Nam amount to
opposite Russia 1.5 billion dollar at present.