RUSSIA CONSIDERE THE VIETNAM LIKE A PARTNER STRATEGIQUE IN THE WHOLE
OF ASIA








HANOI, March 1.  (Corr. Ria " Novosti " Marianna Chatikhina).  Russia
considere Vietnam not only like one partner worthy of confidence in
the South-East Asia, but also like a strategic partner in the whole of
Asia, A declares the president of the Federation of Russia Vladimir
Poutine during the solemn reception offered in its honor by the
president of Vietnam Tran Du' C Lu' ong.

After having note that the people Russian and Vietnamese have ete
together at the times hardest - during the fight of Vietnam for the
independence and during the re-establishment of the national economy
ruinee - Vladimir Poutine A stresses that Russia was sincerely fiere
achievements obtained by the Vietnamese people.  A present, it is
possible not only to preserve the level reached of co-operation, but
also of creer a solid base for its development with the 21e century.


Before the beginning of the solemn reception, the president of Vietnam
gave a Ho command Chi Minh has Vladimir Poutine and the commands of
the Friendship to the Russian Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko
and the Russian Minister for the Businesses etrangeres Igor Ivanov.