(VOVworld) – Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong arrived in Moscow on Sunday for an official visit to Russia at the invitation of President Vladimir Putin. A welcoming ceremony was held at Vnukovo airport.

Party leader Nguyen Phu Trong is solemnly welcomed at Vnukovo airport where he reviews the guard of honour (Photo: VOV)

The Party leader laid a wreath at the Monument of President Ho Chi Minh and visited the Hanoi-Moscow Culture and Trade Center and the Vietnamese embassy staff and representatives of the Vietnamese community in Russia. He briefed them on the situation in Vietnam and Vietnam-Russia relations. Mr.

Mr.Trong meets embassy staff and Vietnamese community representatives

Trong said he hopes the Vietnamese community in Russia will help to promote the bilateral traditional relationship and the image of Vietnamese people to Russian friends.