On April 20, 2022, the Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Vladimir Gusakov held the negotiations with the President of the Vietnamese Academy of Sciences and Technology Thiau Van Minh via videoconference. During the negotiations, the current state of the cooperation between the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and VAST was discussed and the promising areas for the development of cooperation were identified.

During the negotiations, an agreement was reached that the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and the Vietnamese Academy of Sciences and Technology will develop the Roadmap for the scientific and technical cooperation. According to the parties, the Roadmap should include the promising scientific areas that are of mutual interest.

As noted by the results of the talks, the Belarusian and Vietnamese scientists are united in the understanding that the most important tasks of the ensuring economic prosperity at the present stage can be solved only on the basis of science and innovation. In this regard, the scientific contacts between the scientists of two countries, in addition to the expanding our scientific ties, are aimed at solving specific problems of developing various sectors of the national economy of the Republic of Belarus and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.