Lieut. Gen. Do Ba Ty, who is also Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army, welcomed the results of talks between the General Department II of the Vietnam Defence Ministry and the Russia Armed Forces’ General Intelligence Department which is headed by Senior Lieut. Gen. Shlyakhturov Alexandre Vasilevich.

Lieut. Gen. Ty and Senior Lieut. Gen. Shlyakhturov Alexandre Vasilevich agreed on the need for the two intelligence agencies to exchange views on regional and international issues and increase mutual understanding and trust for the benefit of strategic cooperative partnership between the two countries.