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.

VOV.VN - Politburo member, Deputy Secretary of the Party Central Military Commission, Minister of National Defence General Phan Van Giang arrived in New Delhi on June 17 for an official visit to India.

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).

VOV.VN - Senior Lieutenant General Hoang Xuan Chien, Deputy Minister of National Defence on June 12 hosted a reception for South African Defence Attaché, Colonel Eugene Dudley, who came to bid adieu before finishing his term of office in Vietnam.

Timber enterprises were calling for support in terms of market information, requirements and consumer tastes to cope with declining exports which were pushing them into many difficulties from the beginning of this year.

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.

The Ministry of Defence has issued a plan to publicise the test operation of no-fly and restricted zones to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and ultra-light flying craft.