The second meeting of the Inter-parliamentary Commission on Cooperation between the State Duma and the National Assembly of Vietnam was held in Hanoi. Parliamentarians discussed issues of providing legislative support to cooperation between the two states in the fields of energy and transport, information technology and agriculture, science and higher education, financial and interbank interaction.
Representatives of the relevant ministries of Russia and Vietnam also took part in the meeting.
“It is very important for us to increase the impact of our work within the framework of parliamentary dialogue. Moreover, it would be right to find new formats of cooperation with a help of parliamentary diplomacy,” emphasized Vyacheslav Volodin
Volodin 
Vyacheslav Victorovich The Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the eighth convocation. Elected in single mandate constituency № 163 (Saratov constituency - Saratov Oblast) at the meeting of the Commission.
He noted the great contribution of leaders of Russia and Vietnam to the development of bilateral relations. “For our part, we should do everything to provide legislative support for the adopted decisions,” stressed the Chairman of the State Duma.
He recalled that in the joint statement of the presidents of Russia and Vietnam adopted in 2021, which determined the main directions of the comprehensive strategic partnership of the two countries until 2030, “there was set the task to enhance the inter-parliamentary interaction.”
The Chairman of the State Duma proposed to instruct the relevant committees of the State Duma and the National Assembly of Vietnam to establish interaction on a permanent basis. That would increase the work efficiency, as he said.
“I would like to emphasize that sanctions and challenges also give us opportunities. “We should use new formats to find solutions to the accumulated problems and give greater dynamics to the achievement of the development goals of our relations, so that trade turnover will increase, as well as there will be developed strategic areas of our cooperation, such as the oil and gas field, transport, education, peaceful nuclear energy, and agriculture,” emphasized Vyacheslav Volodin.
The Chairman of the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Vương Đình Huệ stressed at the second meeting of the Commission that the parliamentarians would exchange lawmaking experience and discuss cooperation in the field of energy and transport, science and education, IT technology, economy and finance, trade and investment.
“This will be a matter that binds the two legislative bodies, improves the legal framework to enhance the comprehensive strategic partnership between Vietnam and Russia for the benefit of the people of the two countries,” he stressed.
Promising areas of cooperation
The Chairman of the Committee on Energy Pavel Zavalny
Pavel Nikolaevich
said that the energy sector “is one of the key areas of bilateral cooperation with Vietnam”. “It is mutually beneficial,”
noted the parliamentarian.
“A large area for our mutual
activities includes ensuring cybersecurity and the development of artificial
intelligence, platform solutions, software and personnel trainings,” said
Alexander Khinshtein
Alexander Evseyevich
, the Chairman of the Committee on Informational Policy,
Technologies and Communications. He added that Russian IT specialists were
ready to offer a number of solutions, including in matters of digitalization of the activities of government bodies, education and healthcare, and ensuring
security.
Sergey Kabyshev
Sergey Vladimirovich
, the Chairman
of the Committee on Science and Higher Education, noted that cooperation
between the two countries in the humanitarian area had a long history, and the tradition continues. “Every year, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam has a quota
for education of 1,000 students,” said Sergey Kabyshev. In total, more than
3,000 Vietnamese students are currently studying in Russia, according to him.
The Chairman of the Committee on Science and Higher Education also welcomed Vietnam’s decision to include Russian language in the list of first foreign languages to study in secondary schools.
According to the Deputy
Chairman of the Committee on Transport and Development of Transport
Infrastructure Victor Deryabkin
Victor Efimovich
, the Russian side is interested in developing
cooperation in the field of the sea transport and increasing the number of shipments.
He also noted Russia’s interest in developing cooperation with Vietnam in the logistics area.
According to the First
Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Agrarian Issues Vladimir Plotnikov
Vladimir Nikolaevich
, the cooperation between Russia and Vietnam is of a strategic nature, and that is
proved by the level of cooperation in the agricultural field. The parliamentarian
said that exports from Russia to Vietnam had increased by 21.1%. “Our country,
in particular, is ready to increase supplies of wheat and grain processing
products and cereals,” stressed Vladimir Plotnikov.
The First Deputy Chairwoman
of the Committee on Economic Policy Nadezhda Shkolkina
Nadezhda Vasilievna
spoke about the cooperation
between Russia and Vietnam in the trade, economic and financial fields. “Today,
the most payments between our countries are made in dollars and are mainly made
through the third-party correspondent banks. At the same time, it would be
mutually beneficial if our countries started to make payments in national
currencies, but for this, participants in foreign economic activity need access
to liquidity in Vietnamese dongs,” she noted.
The parliamentarian also proposed to use more actively the platform of the Vietnam-Russia Joint Venture Bank, created to support bilateral projects.
The First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Ivan Melnikov
Ivan Ivanovich
, Deputy
Chairman of the State Duma Alexander Babakov
Alexander Mikhailovich
, leader of the LDPR faction,
Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutsky
Leonid Eduardovich
, Chairman of the Committee on Health Protection Badma Bashankaev
Badma Nikolaevich
, Chairman of the Committee
on Energy Pavel Zavalny, Chairman of the Committee on Science and Higher Education
Sergey Kabyshev, Chairman of the Committee on Informational Policy,
Technologies and Communications Alexander Khinshtein, First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Agrarian Issues Vladimir Plotnikov, First Deputy Chairwoman of the Committee on Economic Policy Nadezhda Shkolkina, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Transport and Development of Transport Infrastructure Victor
Deryabkin, Deputy Chairwoman of the Committee on Ecology, Natural Resources and Environment Protection Zhanna Ryabtseva
Zhanna Anatolievna
and representatives of relevant
ministries and agencies took part in the meeting of the Commission.
The first meeting of the Inter-parliamentary Commission on Cooperation between the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation and the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam was held on December 11, 2019, in Moscow. Parliamentarians discussed issues of providing legislative support for bilateral cooperation in the fields of energy, security, digital economy, regional cooperation and cultural and humanitarian ties. The agreement on the creation of the Commission was signed on December 24, 2018, during the official visit of the State Duma delegation to Hanoi.
