Vietnam attends Seoul Defence Dialogue 2022
VOV.VN - Senior Lieutenant General Hoang Xuan Chien, deputy minister of national defence of Vietnam joined other military officers at the opening ceremony of the Seoul Defence Dialogue 2022 that took place in the capital of the Republic of Korea on September 7.
The 11th Seoul Defence Dialogue is getting underway from September 6 to 8 with the participation of senior defense officials and experts from 54 countries and territories, as well as regional and international organizations worldwide.
SDD-11 has been designed to have three plenary sessions to discuss cooperation in promoting the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, rebuilding trust in the Indo-Pacific region and the military’s role in hybrid warfare involving both conventional and unconventional war instruments.
In addition, four special sessions will be arranged to discuss international peacekeeping operations, the fight against disinformation, defense technologies for military modernization and defense acquisition efforts.
The Seoul Defense Dialogue, chaired by the Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of Korea, has been held annually since 2012 in order to create a multilateral dialogue channel to exchange regional and international security issues of mutual concern, contributing to building mutual trust among the participants and promoting dialogue and cooperation.
On the sidelines of the sessions, Deputy Minister of National Defence Hoang Xuan Chien met with his Japanese counterpart Masami Oka. The two sides agreed to further strengthen bilateral cooperation in order to make the Vietnam-Japan defense relationship more substantive and effective. They reaffirmed their close coordination to co-chair the ASEAN Defence Minister’s Meeting plus experts’ working group on peacekeeping.
Senior Lieutenant General Hoang Xuan Chien invited leaders of the Japanese Ministry of Defense to attend the first International Defense Exhibition to be hosted by the Vietnamese Ministry of Defense in early December 2022.