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Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev to pay official visit to Vietnam

Xinhua, March 30, 2015 Adjust font size:

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is expected to pay an official visit to Vietnam, said a press release by Vietnam's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday.

At the invitation of Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, Medvedev will tour Vietnam on April 5-7.

This will be the third time Medvedev visits Vietnam after the first time in 2010 as the Russian president and the second time in 2012 as the prime minister.

Born in 1965, Medvedev served as the Russian president from 2008 to 2012 and has been the incumbent prime minister of Russia since 2012.

Official statistics showed that in 2014, bilateral trade revenue between Vietnam and Russia reached 3.75 billion U.S. dollars. Endi