Chairman of the National Assembly (NA) Tran Thanh Man and a high-ranking delegation of the legislature left Hanoi on September 8 morning for an official visit to Russia where he will also co-chair the 3rd meeting of the Vietnam-Russia Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, the Vietnam News Agency has reported.

The visit from September 8-10 is made at the invitation of Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Victorovich Volodin, and Chairwoman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly Valentina Ivanovna Matviyenko.

The top legislator is accompanied by NA Vice Chairman Nguyen Khac Dinh, Chairman of the Vietnam-Russia Friendship Parliamentarians Group; Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha, Chairman of the Vietnamese Sub-committee of the Vietnam-Russia Intergovernmental Committee for Economic-Trade and Scientific-Technological Cooperation; and other high-ranking officials.

This is the first official visit to Russia by Mr. Man in his capacity as NA Chairman and also the first trip by a key leader of the Vietnamese Party and State in 2024. It follows Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to Vietnam in June.

The visit is one of the practical and effective activities aiming to concretize the Joint Statement on deepening the comprehensive strategic partnership, on the basis of the 30-year achievements of implementing the Treaty on Principles of Friendly Relations between Vietnam and Russia. It also aims to realize cooperation orientations reached in the phone talks between Party General Secretary and President To Lam and President Vladimir Putin on August 8, 2024, the news agency remarked

The trip is expected to contribute to promoting and strengthening the Vietnam-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership in general and the close ties between the Vietnamese NA, and the State Duma and the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of Russia in particular, it said.