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Chief of Army’s General Staff visits Cuba to boost ties

Deputy Defence Minister and Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army Senior Lieutenant General Phan Van Giang is in Cuba for an official visit from September 8-11.
Chief of Army’s General Staff visits Cuba to boost ties ảnh 1Deputy Defence Minister and Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army Senior Lieutenant General Phan Van Giang. (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Deputy DefenceMinister and Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army Senior LieutenantGeneral Phan Van Giang is in Cuba for an official visit from September 8-11. 

He heads a delegation of senior officers tovisit Cuba at the invitation of Alvaro Lopez Miera, First Vice Minister andChief of the General Staff of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces.

The four-day visit aims to reinforce the friendshipand deepen mutual understanding between the two countries’ armies and thearmies’ General Staff. 

Giang and Miera will discuss ways to implementthe bilateral defence cooperation agreed by both sides during a recent visit ofVietnamese Defence Minister General Ngo Xuan Lich to Cuba, and plans forcooperation between 2017 and 2019. -VNA
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