TRADE CO-OPERATION AND ECONOMIC BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE
VIETNAM








HANOI, March 1.  (Approx. special RIA " Novosti " Marianna
Chatikhina).  The presidents Russian and Vietnamese got along has to
give fresh impulse to work of the intergovernmental commission
Russo-Vietnamese, A declares president Russian Vladimir Poutine has
his press conference has Hanoi.

After sayhaving said that in the political field Russia and Vietnam
practically did not have divergences, Russian president A states that
the negotiations had primarily relates to the trade co-operation and
economic.  Vladimir Poutine A stresses that there were still in this
field much reserves not mobilisees.  The two countries, have it says,
could not feliciter owing to the fact that in 2000 trade between the
two countries practically did not increase, no matter what the
economic indices have ete more raised in Russia and in Vietnam.

According to the Russian president, it is the professional potential
which will have to allow, inter alia, to develop the economic
co-operation.  He has rappele has this occasion that many are the
Vietnameses who had received a training either in Sovietique Union or
in Russia and they spoke that quite Russian.  " We must support this
remarkable potential instead of being unaware of it ", A declares
Vladimir Poutine.

The presidents of the two countries got along that they will assist in
their the development of the economic co-operation, the energy field
not being the single field in which the co-operation was possible.
There were beautiful prospects also in the agricultural co-operation,
in the field of mecanic and naval constructions, in the field of high
technologies and the domestication of Space.  Vietnam will be able
moreover to attract much Russian tourists.

Vladimir Poutine A also declares that it was essential to strengthen
the co-operation between the two countries at the regional level.