Lam affirmed that Vietnam values working together with Russia to strengthen the bilateral friendship, making it more effective, substantive, and sustainable.
Regarding cooperation between the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security (MPS) and the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, he said it is thriving across spheres, adding the ministries have maintained experience exchange in emergency preparedness and response.
The Russian ministry has helped the MPS train firefighters and search and rescue forces, provided it with scientific documents and shared experience in training methods.
Vyacheslavovich stressed that the close collaboration, particularly in firefighting, and search and rescue operations, as well as experience exchange in emergency preparedness and response has contributed to deepening the time-honoured friendship between the two countries.
Host and guest consented to increase all-level delegation exchanges, share experience in building early warning centres, and transfer technologies in fire prevention and control, and search and rescue.
The two sides will establish a joint research group to coordinate and share information to complete the legal system on firefighting, and search and rescue operations.
In August 2022, the two ministries signed a memorandum of understanding on the exchange of experience in emergency preparedness and response.
