CO-OPERATION TECHNICO-MILITAIRE RUSSO-VIETNAMIENNE
INTENSIFIES








HANOI, March 1.  (Corr. Ria " Novosti ").  Vladimir Poutine has load
the government to study the relative questions has the intensification
of the co-operation technico-soldier Russo-Vietnamese, has
advertisement Serguei Prikhodko, assistant head of the presidentielle
administration.

According to Prikhodko, Vietnam has proclamation a keen interest for
this co-operation.  Representant of the Kremlin A stresses that the
problems of the co-operation technico-soldier bilaterale appeared in
good place has the agenda of the negotiations between the presidents
of Russia and of Vietnam.

The width of this co-operation is not yet large:  in 2000, it is
chiffree has a few tens of million dollars, said Prikhodko.

The assistant head of the presidentielle administration has rappele
that a good part of the materiel of war of Vietnam was sovietic and
that it needed modernization.

The formation of military and civil Vietnamese frameworks is a reelle
prospect for the co-operation, has it says.  This problem also has ete
approaches with the negotiations.  Representant of the Kremlin A
stresses that Vietnam was there very interests, the president has load
the government to consider the solution of this problem.