VLADIMIR POUTINE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CO-OPERATION BETWEEN RUSSIA
AND THE VIETNAM IN A NEW CONTEXT








HANOI, March 1.  (Approx. special RIA " Novosti " Marianna
Chatikhina).  It would be unforgivable of gacher the good
reports/ratios which existed between the Sovietique Union and Vietnam,
A declares president Russian Vladimir Poutine has his press conference
has Hanoi.  It A stresses that a vast co-operation between our
countries has the time of the Sovietique Union did not have ete dictee
by ideologic considerations.  This co-operation was carried out in the
long-term interest of the two countries, has it adds.

The head of Russian State A declares that it was essential to maintain
and develop the mutually advantageous co-operation in a new context in
which evolved/moved Russia and Vietnam, and also by taking account of
the new international reality.