State President Truong Tan Sang visited naval units based in Cam Ranhcity, the central province of Khanh Hoa, on December 27-28, asking themto improve defence effectiveness and attach importance to therelationship with neighbouring countries, ASEAN member nations,countries Vietnam has long-term friendship with, as well as worldpowers.
Meeting with officers of Submarine Brigade 189, theleader said the Vietnam People’s Navy needs to continue providingconsultancy for the Party, the State and the Ministry of Defence onissues relating to the country’s relations with nations bordering theEast Sea, and exert all efforts to firmly safeguard sea and islandsovereignty and ensure a peaceful environment.
The navy must firmly grasp the situation at sea so as to stay active in all circumstances, he added.
ThePresident stressed the strengthening of military power is in accordancewith Vietnam’s development and also the defence-security requirementwhich is normal in all nations, adding that it is meant to protect thecountry.
He told the navy to be fully aware of the Party and theState’s consistent and clear stance on Vietnam’s sovereignty over HoangSa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagoes, and the country’ssovereignty, sovereign right and jurisdiction over its waters, exclusiveeconomic zone and continental shelf in line with the 1982 UnitedNations Convention on the Law of the Sea and Vietnam’s 2012 Law of theSea.
Vietnam pursues its policy of peacefully solving East Seadisputes on the basis of international law and the Declaration onConduct of Parties in the East Sea (DOC), and working towards theformation of a code of conduct in the East Sea (COC) so that the EastSea can truly become the waters of peace, stability, friendship anddevelopment for interests of all regional countries as well as regionaland international security, the leader noted.
At the workingsession, Admiral Nguyen Van Hien, Deputy Defence Minister and the navy’sCommander, informed President Truong Tan Sang about the navy’s worksand the current maritime situation.
The State leader valued thenavy’s efforts in performing duties, including in external relations,ensuring sea-based economic activities, and search and rescue onoffshore waters.
During his stay in Khanh Hoa, he also visited the High Command of Naval Region 4 and Fisheries Surveillance Unit No.4.-VNA
Meeting with officers of Submarine Brigade 189, theleader said the Vietnam People’s Navy needs to continue providingconsultancy for the Party, the State and the Ministry of Defence onissues relating to the country’s relations with nations bordering theEast Sea, and exert all efforts to firmly safeguard sea and islandsovereignty and ensure a peaceful environment.
The navy must firmly grasp the situation at sea so as to stay active in all circumstances, he added.
ThePresident stressed the strengthening of military power is in accordancewith Vietnam’s development and also the defence-security requirementwhich is normal in all nations, adding that it is meant to protect thecountry.
He told the navy to be fully aware of the Party and theState’s consistent and clear stance on Vietnam’s sovereignty over HoangSa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagoes, and the country’ssovereignty, sovereign right and jurisdiction over its waters, exclusiveeconomic zone and continental shelf in line with the 1982 UnitedNations Convention on the Law of the Sea and Vietnam’s 2012 Law of theSea.
Vietnam pursues its policy of peacefully solving East Seadisputes on the basis of international law and the Declaration onConduct of Parties in the East Sea (DOC), and working towards theformation of a code of conduct in the East Sea (COC) so that the EastSea can truly become the waters of peace, stability, friendship anddevelopment for interests of all regional countries as well as regionaland international security, the leader noted.
At the workingsession, Admiral Nguyen Van Hien, Deputy Defence Minister and the navy’sCommander, informed President Truong Tan Sang about the navy’s worksand the current maritime situation.
The State leader valued thenavy’s efforts in performing duties, including in external relations,ensuring sea-based economic activities, and search and rescue onoffshore waters.
During his stay in Khanh Hoa, he also visited the High Command of Naval Region 4 and Fisheries Surveillance Unit No.4.-VNA
