Russia’s Lavrov to visit Hanoi ahead of G20 meeting
HANOI (Reuters) – Russian International Minister Sergei Lavrov will fly to Hanoi on Tuesday for a two-day go to to Vietnam earlier than heading to a G20 assembly later this week in Indonesia, the Vietnamese authorities stated.
The go to on the invitation of Vietnamese International Minister Bui Thanh Son comes as the 2 nations mark the tenth anniversary of their “complete strategic partnership”, the federal government stated in a press release .
Russia is Vietnam’s greatest arms provider and its corporations are concerned in a number of main vitality tasks within the nation.
The 2 nations have shut ties relationship again to the Soviet period and Vietnam has not to date condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which Moscow calls a “particular operation”.
In April, Vietnam voted in opposition to a decision to droop Russia from the U.N. Human Rights Council over the conflict.
Commerce between Vietnam and Russia rose 25% final 12 months to $7.1 billion, the assertion stated.
Lavrov will attend a gathering of international ministers from the Group of 20 greatest economies (G20) held on the Indonesian island of Bali later this week.
(Reporting by Khanh Vu; Modifying by Ed Davies)
