The Ministry of National Defence is set to soon send official invitations to leaders of its Chinese, Lao and Cambodian counterparts to attend a ceremony celebrating the 50th anniversary of the national reunification day and to send their military personnel to join commemorative military and civilian parade.

State President Luong Cuong on February 20 urged the Ministry of National Defence to take the lead in implementing the restructuring scheme based on the principle of one agency handles multiple tasks, and each task is assigned to only one body.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a working session with the Ministry of National Defence and the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) in Hanoi on December 30 to review their apparatus reorganisation.

Lao Minister of National Defence Khamlieng Uthakaysone on December 5 said that his ministry will continue to cultivate the Laos-Vietnam special relationship when he received a delegation of the Vietnamese Embassy in Laos led by Ambassador Nguyen Minh Tam.

VOV.VN - Party General Secretary and State President To Lam chaired a working session with the Standing Board of the Central Military Commission in Hanoi on August 28.

Minister of National Defence Gen. Phan Van Giang received Russian Minister of Emergency Situations Sen. Lt. Gen. Kurenkov Aleksandr Vyacheslavovich in Hanoi on November 9.

Deputy Minister of National Defence Sen. Lieut. Gen. Hoang Xuan Chien is leading a high-ranking delegation of the Defence Ministry on a working visit to Russia from July 5-7 at the invitation of the Russian Defence Ministry.

VOV.VN - Deputy Minister of National Defence Sen. Lieut. Gen. Hoang Xuan Chien paid a courtesy call to Lao Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence Gen. Chansamone Chanyalath in Vientiane on April 10.

The Vietnamese Ministry of National Defence and the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) of Cuba have completed their joint production of the first episode of a documentary series on the 60-year defence relations between the two countries.

The 4th Vietnam-Thailand defence dialogue took place in Bangkok on November 17 under the chair of Deputy Defence Minister Sen. Lt. Gen. Hoang Xuan Chien and Permanent Secretary of the Thai Defence Ministry General Sanitchanok Sangkachan.