VOV.VN - Senior Lieutenant General Hoang Xuan Chien, Deputy Minister of National Defence of Vietnam, and Thobekile Gamede, Acting Secretary for Defence of South Africa co-chaired the third Vietnam-South Africa Defence Policy Dialogue in Hanoi on February 25.

VOV.VN - Deputy Minister of National Defence of Vietnam Hoang Xuan Chien and his Canadian counterpart Stefanie Beck reviewed defence cooperation between the two countries while co-chairing the third Vietnam-Canada Defence Policy Dialogue in Hanoi on February 20.

Deputy Minister of National Defence Sen. Lieut. Gen Hoang Xuan Chien received newly-appointed Cambodian Military Attaché in Vietnam Maj. Gen. Leang Sovannara in Hanoi on March 27.

The fourth Vietnam – Laos ministerial-level defence policy dialogue was held in the northwestern province of Dien Bien on March 20 under the chair of Deputy Defence Minister Sen. Lieut. Gen. Hoang Xuan Chien and his Lao counterpart Vongkham Phommakone.

Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) and Deputy Minister of National Defence Sen. Lieut. Gen. Nguyen Tan Cuong led a Vietnamese delegation to the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting Retreat (ADMM-Retreat) held in the northern Lao city of Luang Prabang on March 5.

Minister of National Defence General Phan Van Giang hosted a reception in Hanoi on November 22 for Philippine Undersecretary of National Defence Irineo Cruz Espino, who is in Vietnam for the fifth Vietnam-Philippine defence policy dialogue.

Deputy Minister of National Defence Senior Lieutenant General Vu Hai San and his Lao counterpart Lieutenant General Vongkham Phommakone have agreed on the need for the two Ministries of National Defence to continue their comprehensive cooperation in the time ahead.

Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army Lieut. Gen. Nguyen Doan Anh on July 20 received a delegation from the Information Department under the General Staff of the Lao People's Army (LPA), led by its Director Col. Souban Phanthavi.

General Phan Van Giang, Vice Secretary of the Central Military Commission and Defence Minister, hosted a reception in Hanoi on December 6 for Divisional General Víctor Rojo Ramos, head of the Political Directorate of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR).

VOV.VN -Defence Minister Gen. Phan Van Giang is currently attending the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting (ADMM) Retreat and the ninth ADMM Plus from November 21 to November 23 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.