HANOI, June 20 Russian President Vladimir Putin considers it important that Russia and Vietnam are consistently switching to payments in national currencies.
“It is equally important that our countries are consistently switching to national currencies in financial mutual settlements and are striving to build stable channels of credit and banking cooperation,” he said following the results of the Russian-Vietnamese negotiations.
Putin noted that last year the share of transactions in national currencies provided more than 40% of the volume of bilateral commercial transactions, in the first quarter of this year — already almost 60%.