Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence General Phan Van Giang hosted separate receptions in Hanoi on May 12 for the Swedish and Algerian Ambassadors to Vietnam.
Vietnam and Laos affirmed their commitment to strengthen defence partnership as a new Vietnamese defence attaché officially assumed his duties in Vientiane on September 25.
VOV.VN - Senior Lieutenant General and Deputy Minister of National Defence of Vietnam Hoang Xuan Chien, and his Russian counterpart Alexander Vasilyevich Fomin co-chaired the 8th Vietnam–Russia Strategic Defence Dialogue on September 3 in Hanoi.