Medvedev Points Out Importance Of Efforts On Creating Nuclear Science Center In Vietnam

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev pointed out on Wednesday the importance of joint Russian-Vietnamese efforts on creating the nuclear science and technologies center in Vietnam

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 22nd May, 2019) Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev pointed out on Wednesday the importance of joint Russian-Vietnamese efforts on creating the nuclear science and technologies center in Vietnam.

On the sidelines of the talks between Medvedev and his Vietnamese counterpart, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, earlier in the day, the CEO of Russian state nuclear company Rosatom, Alexey Likhachev, and Vietnamese Science and Technologies Minister Chu Ngoc Anh singed a memorandum on creating the nuclear science and technologies center in Vietnam.

"Concerning atomic energy, this sphere needs coordinated efforts to implement the construction project for the nuclear science and technologies center in Vietnam," Medvedev said.

Following the meeting between prime ministers of the two countries earlier in the day, Russian gas giant Novatek signed a memorandum of understanding with the people's committee of the southeastern Vietnamese province of Ninh Thuan, which envisages development of a project of an electric power generation facility that would use liquefied natural gas.