Russian President Vladimir Putin, second left, shakes palms with Vietnamese officers upon arrival at Noi Bai Worldwide Airport in Hanoi, June 20, 2024. | Picture credit score: AP
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Vietnam early on June 20 for talks with the nation’s communist leaders after concluding a protection pact with North Korea for his last cease on a two-nation tour of Asia.
Putin’s airplane landed at Hanoi worldwide airport, the place he was greeted on a crimson carpet by Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha, in accordance with a Reuters witness.
In an op-ed timed for his go to, Putin applauded the communist-ruled nation of Southeast Asia for supporting “a practical technique to resolve the disaster” in Ukraine, in feedback printed within the Communist Get together of Vietnam’s newspaper.
Vietnam, which formally pursues a impartial international coverage it calls “bamboo diplomacy” in its relations with world powers, has avoided condemning Russia’s assault on Ukraine, a stance Western international locations take into account too near the Kremlin.
The Southeast Asian nation would be the third nation Putin has visited, after China and North Korea, since he was sworn in for a fifth time period in Might.
Vietnam has been making ready for a full state welcome for Putin, his first go to since 2017 and fifth in whole.
Along with holding talks with Vietnam’s high leaders, Putin will attend wreath-laying ceremonies, together with on the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, which homes the embalmed corpse of Vietnam’s founding chief.