Vinh is leading a delegation of the Vietnamese Ministry of National Defence to the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting (ADMM) Retreat on February 5 and 6.Singaporean Minister Ng Eng Hen highly valued Vietnam’s contributions to military-defence cooperation mechanisms of ASEAN.Meanwhile, Deputy Minister Vinh appreciated host Singapore’ preparations for ASEAN Year 2018, affirming that Vietnam will actively support Singapore to successfully organise military-defence meetings this year for the sake of ASEAN.At the meeting with the Chinese minister, Vinh said aside from existing fruitful cooperation fields, the Vietnamese Defence Ministry wants to strengthen ties between Military Regions 1, 2 and 3 of Vietnam and the southern military zone of China, between Vietnam’s National Defence Academy and China’s National Defence University, as well as between some Vietnamese academies and appropriate Chinese partners.Minister Chang said bilateral relations grew positively in 2017 with the mutual visits by General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Xi Jinping.He expressed his belief that in 2018, relations between the two countries, including the two armies, will continue to develop through the implementation of the cooperation activities agreed by their leaders, including exchanging high-level delegations to discuss issues of shared concern.He also asked for further coordination to enhance Vietnam-China border defence friendship exchanges, particularly the upcoming fifth exchange, so that this cooperation mechanism will reap more and more substantive outcomes.
The visit aims to continuously implement agreements reached by the two countries’ Party and State leaders such as increasing high-level delegation exchanges and deepening the bilateral military ties. Minister Lich, who is also Politburo member and Vice Secretary of the Central Military Commission, is scheduled to hold talks with his Chinese counterpart Chang Wanquan and meet with senior officials from the Chinese Party, State and Central Military Commission. He will also visit several units of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. In a recent interview with the Quan doi Nhan dan (People’s Army) daily , Chinese Ambassador to Vietnam Hong Xiaoyong…... [read more]
BEIJING (VNS) - Viet Nam and China's defence ministers met yesterday in Beijing, and shared their wish to strengthen neighbourly friendship between the two countries. Defence Minister Gen. Phung Quang Thanh, who is on an official visit to China from October 16-18, and his Chinese counterpart Chang Wanquan noted with pleasure the status of co-operation between the two armies in line with a protocol signed in 2003, saying that this should continue by facilitating more visits, personnel training, and holding joint patrols on the Gulf of Tonkin for a borderl of peace, stability and development. They agreed to enhance Party…... [read more]
PANO - During the Vietnam presidency of ASEAN, the Defence Ministry will host important conferences in the framework of defence - security cooperation in ASEAN. Among those, the ASEAN Defence Senior Officials' Meeting Working Group (ADSOM WG) took place from the 31st March to 3rd April in Hanoi. The Head of the Vietnam Institute for Defence International Relations was the chairman of the meeting. He said, "The ADSOM WG was tasked with well preparing and finalising documents and materials for the 4th ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meeting (ADMM-4) to submit to the ASEAN Defence Senior Officers' Meeting (ADSOM) chaired by Lieutenant…... [read more]
Defence Minister General Phung Quang Thanh has reiterated Vietnam's policy of protecting national sovereignty by peaceful measures with respect to international law, in order to maintain peace, stability, security and safety of navigation in the East Sea. Thanh briefed participants at the eight ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meeting (ADMM-8) in Myanmar on May 20 amidst their concerns over China's illegal placement of a drilling rig in Vietnam's exclusive economic zone and continental shelf. He said the act threatens peace, stability, security, safety and freedom of navigation and aviation in the East Sea. Vietnam is determined to keep political stability in the…... [read more]
VietNamNet Bridge - Preparation for the first Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Defence Ministers' Meeting Plus (ADMM Plus), hosted by Viet Nam at the National Convention Centre in Ha Noi on Tuesday, has been completed. The meeting would mark the start of a new defence and security co-operation mechanism in the emerging regional security architecture, said Deputy Minister of Defence Nguyen Chi Vinh at a press conference yesterday. Attending the ADMM Plus would be defence ministers, representatives for the defence ministers of 10 ASEAN members, the ASEAN secretariat and eight dialogue partners: Australia, China, India, Japan, Republic of Korea,…... [read more]
