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.

A high-level delegation of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) led by Chief of the army’s General Staff and Vice Minister of National Defence Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Tan Cuong joined a series of meetings in Vientiane on May 10 as part of his trip to Laos.

Global integration in the fields of politics, national defence and security has been carried out scientifically and proactively, ensuring national interests and their harmony with interests of partners, said Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son.

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.

President Vo Van Thuong on March 29 commended Hanoi’s efforts in implementing the national defence strategy in the new situation while addressing a conference reviewing the 10-year implementation of the resolution adopted at the 8th plenum of the 11th Party Central Committee on the strategy.