Hanoi, Oct. 23 -- Vietnam and Venezuela will strengthen cooperation in training, research, and policy consultation, aiming to deepen their long-standing friendship and expand practical collaboration. The consensus was reached during a meeting in Hanoi on October 23 between Politburo member, President of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics (HCMA) and Chairman of the Central Theory Council Professor Dr. Nguyen Xuan Thang and Venezuela's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in charge of Asia, the Middle East, and Oceania Tatiana Pugh Moreno, who is also Director of Venezuela's Institute for Advanced Studies in Diplomacy. Thang emphasised that Vietnam values its traditional friendship with Venezuela, and expressed hope for closer bilat...