Hanoi, March 25 -- During his visit, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh held talks with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, met with the Chairs of the Russian parliament's chambers, Valentina Matvienko and Vyacheslav Volodin, as well as with Russian Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu.

Pham also witnessed the signing of an intergovernmental agreement on construction of the first nuclear power plant in Viet Nam; visited the National University of Science and Technology (MISIS), where more than 1,000 Vietnamese engineers and specialists in mining, materials science and metallurgy; and held working sessions with leaders of AFK Sistema, Russia's largest private conglomerate, and Russian Railways (RZD).

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