Moscow, May 22 -- Vietnam always values and remembers the wholehearted support and sincere sentiments that generations of leaders and people of Russia have extended to Vietnam during its past struggle for national independence as well as in the ongoing cause of national construction and defence, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence General Phan Van Giang has said. The Vietnamese official made the statement during talks between delegations of the Vietnamese and Russian defence ministries in Russia on May 21. He noted that with the active coordination of the Russian Ministry of Defence, Vietnam's Ministry of National Defence inaugurated the Vietnam-Soviet Union solidarity and friendship monument at the Vietnam Military His...