Dmitry Chernyshenko takes part in a ceremony to hand over a mobile laboratory to the Tropical Centre in Vietnam
Dmitry Chernyshenko takes part in a ceremony to hand over a mobile laboratory to the Tropical Centre in Vietnam
Dmitry Chernyshenko takes part in a ceremony to hand over a mobile laboratory to the Tropical Centre in Vietnam
Dmitry Chernyshenko takes part in a ceremony to hand over a mobile laboratory to the Tropical Centre in Vietnam
Dmitry Chernyshenko takes part in a ceremony to hand over a mobile laboratory to the Tropical Centre in Vietnam
Dmitry Chernyshenko takes part in a ceremony to hand over a mobile laboratory to the Tropical Centre in Vietnam
Dmitry Chernyshenko takes part in a ceremony to hand over a mobile laboratory to the Tropical Centre in Vietnam
Dmitry Chernyshenko takes part in a ceremony to hand over a mobile laboratory to the Tropical Centre in Vietnam
Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko took part in a ceremony to deliver a mobile diagnostics and monitoring laboratory to the Russia-Vietnam Tropical Research and Technology Centre (Tropical Centre) in Hanoi.
In his remarks at the event, the Deputy Prime Minister emphasised that the Federal Service for the Oversight of Consumer Protection and Welfare of the Russian Federation (Rospotrebnadzor) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Russia-Vietnam Tropical Research and Technology Centre in June 2024 as part of the state visit by President Vladimir Putin to Vietnam.
“Under Anna Popova’s leadership, Rospotrebnadzor undertook over 60 research expeditions together with the Tropical Centre. Our Vietnamese colleagues are now about to receive their second laboratory of this kind from Russia. Designed by Rospotrebnadzor as a response tool for dealing with dangerous infectious disease outbreaks in a timely manner, this unit can carry out up to 800 tests per day. The laboratory is mounted on an all-terrain chassis and can operate in remote, hard-to-access locations,” Dmitry Chernyshenko pointed out.
Deputy Defence Minister of Vietnam, Senior Lieutenant General Hoang Xuan Chien, and Co-Director of the Tropical Centre’s Vietnamese section, Dang Hong Chiena, thanked Russia and talked about the importance of the two countries working together.
Vietnam is Russia’s strategic partner in Southeast Asia, including in research, sanitation and ensuring epidemiological wellbeing. This laboratory will help study dangerous infections in Vietnam’s remote regions and will improve its response capabilities for dealing with biological threats in Southeast Asia in general.
“Our goal together with our Vietnamese partners is to fulfil the instructions by our respective presidents to employ the Tropical Centre’s potential so that it emerges as a vivid example and comes to symbolise effective Russia-Vietnam cooperation. In June, we signed the Tropical Centre’s Development Strategy, and followed up in November by signing a Scientific Research and Action Programme for 2025–2029. Today, we signed an intergovernmental agreement to deliver a research vessel to the Tropical Centre so that we can undertake joint research projects at sea,” Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education Konstantin Mogilevsky said.
Russian participants at the event included Deputy Director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation Mikhail Babich, Director of the Tropical Centre’s Russian section Andrei Kuznetsov, and Deputy Director for Research at the Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution at the Russian Academy of Sciences Valery Karpov.
