VOV.VN - Senior Lieutenant General and Deputy Minister of National Defence of Vietnam Hoang Xuan Chien, and his Russian counterpart Alexander Vasilyevich Fomin co-chaired the 8th Vietnam–Russia Strategic Defence Dialogue on September 3 in Hanoi.

The recent visit to Russia by President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has created a new motivation for the two countries’ all-round strategic partnership, affirmed researchers and scholars at a recent roundtable marking the 20th anniversary of Vietnam-Russia strategic partnership.