A high-ranking military delegation led by Sen. Lieut.Gen. Nguyen Khac Nghien, Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnamese People’s Army, left Hanoi on June 21 for official visits to Indonesia and Malaysia.

The visits, made at the invitation of the Indonesian Army Chief, General Djoko Santoso, and General TanSri Abdul Azizbin Hj Zainal, Chief of the Malaysian Defence Forces, aim to consolidate and expand cooperation and friendship between the Vietnamese army and its Indonesian and Malaysian counterparts./.