Mon. Feb 17th, 2025

News – Russian Government


Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Chernyshenko took part in the ceremony of handing over the mobile display and monitoring laboratory to the Russian-Vietnamese Tropical Research and Technology Center (Tropical Center) in Hanoi.

At it, the Deputy Prime Minister emphasized that in June 2024, as part of the state visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Vietnam, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Rospotrebnadzor and the Russian-Vietnamese Tropical Research and Technology Center.

“Rospotrebnadzor, under the leadership of Anna Yuryevna Popova, and the Tropical Center conducted more than 60 joint scientific expeditions. This is the second such laboratory handed over by the Russian side to its Vietnamese colleagues. It was developed by Rospotrebnadzor to quickly respond to outbreaks of particularly dangerous infections. The capacity allows for up to 800 studies per day. This mobile all-terrain complex can operate even in hard-to-reach places,” noted Dmitry Chernyshenko.

Deputy Minister of National Defense of Vietnam Colonel General Hoang Xuan Tien and co-director of the Vietnamese part of the Tropical Center Dang Hong Chien expressed gratitude to the Russian side and noted the importance of cooperation between the two countries.

Vietnam is Russia’s strategic partner in Southeast Asia, including in the field of science and sanitary and epidemiological well-being. Such a laboratory will make it possible to study particularly dangerous infections in remote areas of Vietnam and will increase the capacity to respond to biothreats in the Southeast Asian region as a whole.

“Together with our Vietnamese partners, we strive to fulfill the instructions of our presidents to use the potential of the Tropical Center “with the aim of turning it into an exemplary model and symbol of cooperation between Russia and Vietnam.” In June, the Development Strategy of the Tropical Center was signed, and in November, the Program of Scientific Research and Applied Work for the period 2025–2029. Today, an intergovernmental agreement was signed on the transfer of a research vessel to the Tropical Center for joint marine research,” noted Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of Russia Konstantin Mogilevsky.

From the Russian side, the event was also attended by Deputy Director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation Mikhail Babich, Director of the Russian part of the Tropical Center Andrey Kuznetsov, Deputy Director for Scientific Work of the Institute of Ecology and Evolution. A.N. Severtsov Russian Academy of Sciences Valery Karpov.

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