Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Pham Binh Minh (R) and Head of the Russian Federal Agency for Youth Affairs Alexander Bugayev (Photo: VNA)

At a meeting with Head of the Russian Federal Agency for Youth Affairs Alexander Bugayev in Hanoi on Tuesday, Mr. Minh said applauded the signing of a cooperation agreement for 2019-2022 between the National Committee on Youth of Vietnam and the Russian Federal Agency for Youth Affairs, covering a wide range of issues such as stepping up exchanges between young leaders, sharing information about and experience in youth affairs in each country, cooperating in volunteer activities and promoting collaboration between young businesspeople. Bugayev, who is leading a delegation of Russian young people to the Vietnam-Russia Youth Forum 2019 in Hanoi, thanked the Vietnamese Government for its support and assistance in the organization of the first Vietnam-Russia Youth Forum. He said the freshly-signed cooperation pact for 2019-2022 will lay the foundations for the youth of Russia and Vietnam to further promote cooperative relations in the coming time.