The Ministry of National Defence on July 27 held a ceremony to hand over the President’s decision to an officer who will take on United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission in the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) Mission in Abyei on the border of South Sudan and Sudan.
Defence cooperation between Vietnam and India has been actively promoted, Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) and Deputy Minister of National Defence Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Tan Cuong said while receiving Admiral R Hari Kumar, Chief of the Indian Naval Staff, in Hanoi on July 24.
The Vietnam International Defence Expo 2024, the second of its kind, is expected to attract 250 exhibitors from 50 countries and territories around the world.
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 Defense Senior Lieutenant General Hoang Xuan Chien, member of the Central Military Commission, held a meeting on June 26 with Russian Ambassador to Vietnam Gennady Stepanovich Bezdetko.
Representatives of the Petroleum Department under the General Department of Logistics of the Vietnamese Ministry of National Defence have handed over equipment for a level-3 petroleum laboratory to the Petroleum Department of the General Department of Logistics - Finance under the Royal Cambodian Army.
VOV.VN - Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba Corps General Álvaro López Miera is making an official visit to Vietnam from June 20 to June 25 at an invitation of Minister of National Defence General Phan Van Giang.
Minister of National Defence General Phan Van Giang said on June 15 that Vietnam and the EU have effectively cooperated in defence, in line with the Vietnam-EU Partnership and Cooperation Framework Agreement (PCA), the agreement between Vietnam and the EU on the establishment of a framework for Vietnam’s participation in crisis management activities of the EU (FPA).
The Ministry of National Defence held the first meeting of the Steering Committee for making a proposal on the building of a law on participation in the United Nations peacekeeping operations in Hanoi on June 9.
A high-ranking Vietnamese defence delegation led by Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army (VPA) and Deputy Minister of National Defence Sen. Lieut. Gen. Nguyen Tan Cuong attended the 20th ASEAN Chiefs of Defence Forces Meeting (ACDFM 20) that opened in Bali, Indonesia on June 7.