Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that his country's cooperation with Vietnam has been developing positively during talks with visiting Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.

Putin said relationship between the two countries has traditionally been friendly and been developed successfully in a diversified nature, with bilateral trade growing by 20 percent in 2012.

He said the two partners cooperate in energy, machine-building and military-technical spheres, with military cooperation "the most important" area.

For his part, Dung called his visit to Russia "a continuation of the comprehensive strategic cooperation" between Moscow and Hanoi, tracing the bilateral cooperation back to 1959, when then Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh visited Sochi.

Also on Wednesday, Dung met with head of Russian Atomic Agency Rosatom Sergei Kirienko and the two discussed cooperation on nuclear technologies which includes construction of the first nuclear power plant in Vietnam.

"The task to build a nuclear power plant in Vietnam is a sign of trust. We'll do our best to justify that trust and to build the safest and modern nuclear power plant in Vietnam," said Kirienko.

Dung said the nuclear power plant would play a "very important role" in ensuring Vietnam's energy security.

According to Rosatom's subdivision Atomstroyexport, works to prepare the construction site for the Ninh Thuan-One Nuclear Power Plant, which will be located in southern Vietnam, started in December 2011, and the first reactor is scheduled to be completed in 2020.

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