President Vo Van Thuong examined the training and combat readiness at Brigade K3 of General Department II, the Ministry of National Defence, on December 21, on the occasion of the 79th founding anniversary of the Vietnam People’s Army (December 22, 1944 - 2023) and the All People’s National Defence Festival (December 22, 1989 - 2023).

Deputy Minister of Defence Sen. Lieut. Gen. Hoang Xuan Chien and Director General for International Relations and Strategy at the French Ministry of the Armed Forces Alice Rufo co-chaired the third Vietnam-France defence strategy and cooperation dialogue in Paris on December 18.

President Vo Van Thuong examined the training and combat readiness at the Special-task Arm in Hanoi on December 18, on the occasion of the 79th founding anniversary of the Vietnam People’s Army (December 22, 1944 - 2023) and the All People’s National Defence Festival (December 22, 1989 - 2023).

The first Vietnam-Laos-Cambodia border defence friendship exchange was held on December 14 in the tri-border area that comprises Ngoc Hoi district in Vietnam’s Central Highland province of Kon Tum, Laos’ Attapeu province, and Cambodia’s Ratanakiri province as well as in Kon Tum city.

A ceremony was held in Vientiane on December 13 to inaugurate a project upgrading the Lao People's Army History Museum at a cost of US$4.6 million funded from the Ministry of National Defence of Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Senior Lieutenant General Huynh Chien Thang, deputy chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army, received a delegation from Japan’s Ministry of Defence, the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF), and the Sasakawa Peace Foundation led by Major General Shirai Ryoji, director of the Department of Personnel and Training at the General Staff of the Japan Air Self-Defence Force, on December 11 in Hanoi.

President Vo Van Thuong had a working session on December 5 with the Military Region 5 Command, which comprises 11 central and Central Highlands localities, on the military-defence situation in the region.

The Vietnamese Party, State, Government and people highly value the stable, sustainable and long-term development of strategic partnership with Malaysia, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh told Malaysian Minister of Defence Dato’ Seri Utama Haji Mohamad Bin Haji Hasan during a reception in Hanoi on December 4.

VOV.VN - Minister of National Defence General Phan Van Giang and his Malaysian counterpart Dato’ Seri Utama Haji Mohamad Bin Haji Hasan signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on bilateral defence cooperation following their talks held in Hanoi on December 4.

A seminar on mitigating trade defence risks when increasing exports to CPTPP markets took place in Hanoi on November 27.