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Pakistan’s new attaché asked to augment defence ties with Vietnam

Vo Van Tuan, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army, hoped that the incoming Pakistani Defence Attaché to Vietnam will help boost defence cooperation between the two countries.
Pakistan’s new attaché asked to augment defence ties with Vietnam ảnh 1Vo Van Tuan, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Vo Van Tuan, Deputy Chief of theGeneral Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army, has said he hopes the incomingPakistani Defence Attaché to Vietnam will help boost defence cooperationbetween the two countries.

Receiving Saqib Qamar at the Defence Ministry’sheadquarters in Hanoi on December 6, Sen. Lt. Gen. Tuan congratulated him onhis appointment as Defence Attaché.

He said that potential for defence cooperationbetween Vietnam and Pakistan remains huge.

They can consider setting up an annual defencepolicy dialogue and signing a memorandum of understanding on bilateral defencecooperation so as to expand cooperation, thereby benefiting both armies, henoted.

Tuan added that Vietnam wants to learn fromcollaboration with Pakistan in search and rescue, military medicine, unexplodedordnance settlement, and participation in United Nations peacekeepingoperations.-VNA
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