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.