VOV.VN - Sen. Lieu. Gen, Nguyen Tan Cuong, Chief of General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army, hosted a welcoming ceremony in Hanoi on September 20 for Gen. Chalermphon Srisawasdi, Chief of Defense Forces of the Royal Thai Armed Forces, who is on a visit to Vietnam.

The US Institute of Peace (USIP) has recently organised its annual dialogue on war legacies and peace in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.

A Vietnamese delegation led by Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Do Thanh Trung on September 11 attended a dialogue between ASEAN and Russia within the framework of the Eastern Economic Forum that is taking place in Russia's Far East city of Vladivostok from September 10-14.

Permanent Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Minh Vu and First Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Vladimir Titov co-chaired the 12th Vietnam-Russia defense and security strategy dialogue in Moscow on August 29.

ASEAN, over the past 56 years, has gradually affirmed its position as a pillar of peace, an epicentrum of growth and a nucleus of dialogue and cooperation in the region, wrote Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son in an article named “ASEAN: Epicentrum of peace, cooperation, development” on the occasion of the group’s 56th founding anniversary (August 8, 1967-2023).

VOV.VN - A Vietnamese delegation is attending the 34th meeting of ASEAN Senior Officials on the Environment (ASOEN) and related meetings in Bogor city of West Java province, Indonesia, from July 31 to August 4.

VOV.VN - The Director of the Foreign Relations Department under Ministry of National Defence Major General Vu Thanh Van and Assistant Deputy Minister of Canada’s Department of National Defence Peter Hammerschmidt on July 27 co-hosted the Vietnam – Canada Bilateral Defence Consultation 2023.

VOV.VN - The 11th Ocean Dialogue opened with the theme of “Hybrid Activities: Helping or Hindering Order at Sea”, with the event taking place on July 11 in the northern port city of Hai Phong.

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 and Matteo Perego di Cremnago, Italian Undersecretary of State for Defence, co-chaired the fourth Vietnam - Italy Defence Policy Dialogue on July 3 as part of the former’s working visit to Italy.