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Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan (fifth from left) presents the first-class Labour Order to the Vietnam-Russia Tropical Center in a ceremony held Tuesday in Hanoi. |
Prof. Dr. Kucherenko Petr Aleksandrovich, Russian Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education, co-Chairman of the Intergovernmental Coordinating Committee for the Vietnam - Russia Tropical Center, and head of the Russian sub-committee said that the center had developed continuously over the last 35 years.
Its operations were currently focusing on the areas important to both countries, especially climatic testing of materials and technical components, studying the biodiversity of tropical ecosystems, studying the settlement of chemical warfare consequences, and studying tropical infectious diseases originating from the wild.
The center also attached importance to training high-quality personnel (both Vietnamese and Russian) and training experts of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) in the Russian language, he said, noting that it was entering a new development period that would enable it to make major breakthroughs and not only receive but also apply new scientific knowledge to serve security and defense in the two countries.
At the ceremony, the center was granted the first-class Labour Order in recognition of its prominent achievements during 2017-2021.
Vice State President Vo Thi Anh Xuan praised the center’s enormous efforts and achievements over the last 35 years.
She said the new context required the center to continue reforming strongly and improving the quality and effectiveness of its performance, especially the research, application, and transfer of science and technology, to fulfill duties.
Xuan expressed her belief that by bringing into play the VPA’s glorious tradition, with attention from leaders from the two countries and support from relevant agencies, the center would see even more achievements and become the leading science and technology organization of the VPA and Vietnam.
This would allow it to contribute to building the VPA as well as the Vietnam - Russia friendship and comprehensive strategic partnership, for the sake of the two peoples and for peace, cooperation, and development in the region and the world.
