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At the meeting with Lao Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister General Chansamone Chanyalath, General Giang was informed by the Lao counterpart on his country’s COVID-19 prevention and control efforts. The Lao Deputy PM and Defense Minister also thanked the Vietnamese government and defense ministry for supporting the Lao government and people in difficult periods. General Phan Van Giang, in turn, shared with his Lao counterpart on the COVID-19 situation in Vietnam, stressing that the country has controlled the pandemic and removed restrictions, brought people’s lives to new normal status, recovered production and tourism activities. On the occasion, General Giang also congratulated Laos for successfully controlling the pandemic and believed that Vietnam’s neighboring country will stabilize the people’s lives soon as in the pre-pandemic period. The two defense leaders agreed that the defense bilateral ties have been increasingly enhanced in all  aspects in a practical and … [Read more...] about Defense minister holds bilateral meeting with counterparts from Laos, Japan and Cambodia

Under the theme “Solidarity for harmonized security,” ADMM-16 saw the presence of defense ministers and defense officials of 10 ASEAN member states, and ASEAN Secretary-General Lim Jock Hoi. In his opening remarks, Cambodian Minister of National Defense Tea Banh, who is also Deputy Prime Minister of Cambodia and ADMM Chair, thanked ASEAN member states for their support and assistance to the country in its ASEAN Chairmanship Year and in organizing this meeting in an offline format after two years of being held virtually due to the heavy impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Cambodian defense chief emphasized that ASEAN needs to unite to uphold strength and self-reliance in the context of facing many challenges such as competition among major powers, transnational crime, terrorism, security, climate change, and diseases. Cambodian Minister of National Defense Tea Banh said that since their inception, ADMM and ADMM+ have played an important role in consulting and promoting defense … [Read more...] about Defense Minister attends 16th ASEAN Defense Ministers’ Meeting

At the informal meeting between defense ministers of ASEAN and Japan, Japanese Minister of Defense Kishi Nobuo affirmed that Japan supports ASEAN’s centrality in regional cooperation mechanisms. He suggested the two sides strengthen defense cooperation in the fields that are important to ASEAN, including improvement of maritime security, human resource quality, cyber security, and response to impacts of climate change on regional security. Head delegates of ASEAN highly appreciated Japan’s role in maintaining peace and stability in the region. They thanked Japan for providing vaccine and giving other support for ASEAN countries in the COVID-19 fight efforts. They stressed that they back Japan’s Vientiane Vision 2.0 on promoting defense cooperation with ASEAN, creating a driving force for the maintenance of regional peace, stability and security. Addressing the ASEAN-Japan Defense Ministers’ Informal Meeting, Vietnamese Defense Minister General Phan Van Giang spoke highly of the … [Read more...] about ASEAN defense ministers meet with Japanese, Chinese counterparts

At the reception on June 24 at the headquarters of the Ministry of National Defense, the Vietnamese defense minister highly appreciated the Australian diplomat’s contribution to boosting the Vietnam-Australia strategic partnership, including the bilateral defense ties. General Giang thanked the government and people of Australia for providing more than 22 million of COVID-19 vaccine doses and the Australian Department of Defense for committing to supply Vietnam with medical equipment (worth AUD 1.5 million) to fight COVID-19. The Vietnamese defense chief emphasized the implementation of bilateral defense cooperation as planned despite bad impacts of the COVID-19. He highlighted the maintenance of the high-level contacts through phone talks between the two defense ministers, the offline defense policy dialogue at the deputy defense minister level, as well as the enhancement of cooperation in training, U.N. peacekeeping operations, settlement of war consequences, and exchange of … [Read more...] about Defense minister receives outgoing Australian Ambassador to Vietnam

At the meeting, on behalf of the N.A. deputy delegation, Nguyen Lam Thanh, Vice Chairman of the N.A.’s Council of Ethnic Minorities, reported on important outcomes of the freshly-concluded third session of 15th N.A. In particular, in 19 scientific, democratic, and highly responsible working days, the 15th N.A.’s third meeting achieved all set targets. During this session, the 15th N.A. looked into a large amount of work and made decisions on many important contents for 2022 and the following years. As a result, the 15th N.A. passed five laws, adopted 17 resolutions, and gave opinions on six draft laws and resolutions and other important contents. On hearing the achievements of the aforementioned meeting, participating voters voiced their opinions and suggested the delegation of Thai Nguyen N.A. deputies make proposals to the N.A. on creating a special mechanism for Thai Nguyen province to make the best of its full potential, and strengths to develop in the coming time. With … [Read more...] about Defense Minister meets with Pho Yen voters

At the meeting, Major General Nguyen Duc Tung, Director of the Department of Transport, reported on the progress of the implementation of Project VT21 on renovation of military marine transport in the 2021-2030 period. The brigade’s commander later reported on the task performance of the brigade in the first six months of this year, highlighting the unit’s completion of all assigned transport volume and assurance of absolute safety in all aspects. Attentively, since early this year, the whole unit has strictly observed combat readiness regulations, prevented natural disasters, conducted search and rescue missions. It has also well managed and maintained materiel and ensured logistics and financial supplies for troops. On hearing aforementioned reports and touring technical, production areas and checking the unit’s means of transport, General San applauded the brigade for surmounting difficulties, well performing its duties, and achieving set targets. The deputy defense minister … [Read more...] about Deputy defense minister works with Transport Brigade 649

The gift presentation was on the sidelines of the deputy defense minister’s meeting with voters after the third session of the 15th National Assembly and part of activities in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Wounded and Fallen Soldiers’ Day (July 27, 1947 - 2022). Visiting veteran Nguyen Thai Hoa in Ba Da village, Tan Thanh commune and veteran To Huu Phuc in Chanh Hung village, Hieu Liem commune, General Cuong and leaders of Binh Duong province inquired after their family members. The guests expressed deep gratitude to merit and dedication of families of policy beneficiaries, fallen troops and heroes to national independence and reunification. They also highlighted great efforts of many such families to rise in life and their contribution to local socio-economic development. Wishing families health and happiness and to be bright cultural examples in localities, General Cuong hoped that the veterans will continue promoting Uncle Ho’s soldiers’ virtue, upholding good … [Read more...] about Deputy defense minister visits policy beneficiary families in Binh Duong

The speech with a message of peace, promoting trust, cooperation and development attracted much attention. The People’s Army Newspaper would like to introduce the following opinions to clarify the message. “ Self-strengthening, self-help ” - basic principle to uphold national independence Talking with the reporter of the People's Army Newspaper, Assoc. Prof., Dr., Major General Vu Cuong Quyet, Director of the Institute for Defense Strategy under the Ministry of National Defense, affirmed that the defense minister’s speech showed the strategic vision towards regional and international security issues, associated with reality and defense and security challenges facing Vietnam. The speech confirmed that the trend of peace, cooperation and development is always a common desire of mankind. However, traditional security issues still remain complicated, particularly strategic competition, disagreements, conflicts of interest, and disputes over territorial sovereignty between … [Read more...] about Part 1: The comprehensive all people’s defense posture

The dialogue was part of the ongoing official visit to the U.K. of Great Britain and North Ireland of Chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam Vuong Dinh Hue. At the event, the two senior officials expressed their delight at the positive and dynamic development of the Vietnam-U.K. strategic partnership, especially the effective maintenance of the bilateral defense cooperation. They wished to turn defense ties into a pillar of the two countries’ overall relations. Speaking highly of the outcomes of the implementation of the bilateral defense cooperation on the basis of the memorandum of understanding on defense cooperation signed in 2017, the two sides hoped to continuously boost existing cooperation contents, including delegation exchange, training, U.N. peacekeeping operations. They confirmed that defense policy dialogue is an important cooperation mechanism for the two ministries of defense to review achievements gained and put forth future cooperation orientations. Also … [Read more...] about Vietnam-U.K.’s fourth defense policy dialogue held

Many cooperation initiatives have been implemented After the initiative to establish ADMM was approved at the 10th ASEAN Summit in Laos in November 2004, the first ADMM was successfully held in Malaysia in May 2006. Since then, ADMM has become an annual activity of the association’s defense ministers. It aims to promote regional peace and stability via dialogue and cooperation in defense and security; map out orientations for cooperation among ASEAN member countries and between ASEAN, its friends and dialogue partners. It also helps enhance trust and knowledge about defense and security challenges and boost transparency and openness in the region, contributing to building the ASEAN Security Community (later renamed the ASEAN Political-Security Community). So far, ADMM has undergone 15 editions hosted by member countries in turn, namely Malaysia (2006), Singapore (2007), Thailand (2009), Vietnam (2010), Indonesia (2011), Cambodia (2011, 2012), Brunei (2013), Myanmar (2014), … [Read more...] about ADMM to deepen ASEAN defense cooperation