Ensuring safety for Vietnamese staff working at UN peacekeeping missions in South Sudan and the Central African Republic is the first and the most important task amid the complicated development of the COVID-19 pandemic in those two countries, according to Deputy Defence Minister Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Chi Vinh.
Heads of delegations to the ASEAN Defence Senior Officers’ Meeting (ADSOM) attended a working dinner in Hanoi on February 18 under the chair of Sen. Lt. Gen. Nguyen Chi Vinh, Vietnam’s Deputy Defence Minister and head of ADSOM Vietnam.
Deputy Defence Minister Nguyen Chi Vinh and Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Quoc Dung co-chaired a working session in Hanoi on September 26 to review preparations for ASEAN Year 2020 and Vietnam’s assumption of a non-permanent seat in the UN Security Council.
The third Vietnam-Thailand defence policy dialogue took place in Ho Chi Minh City on September 19 under the chair of Vietnam’s Deputy Defence Minister Nguyen Chi Vinh and Thailand’s Permanent Secretary of Defence Natt Intracharoen.
Deputy Defence Minister Nguyen Chi Vinh on September 13 hosted a reception for Indian Ambassador to Vietnam Pranay Verma, where he affirmed the importance Vietnam attaches to relations with India, covering cooperation in national defence.
Maritime security is among the issues drawing much attention at the ongoing 8th vice-ministerial Seoul Defence Dialogue in the Republic of Korea (RoK), according to Deputy Defence Minister, Sen. Lt. Gen. Nguyen Chi Vinh.
The 8th defence policy dialogue at deputy ministerial level between Vietnam and the Republic of Korea was held in Seoul on June 20 under the co-chair of Deputy Defence Minister Nguyen Chi Vinh and his RoK counterpart Park Jae-min.
Vietnam and Singapore want to step up the comprehensive and substantial development of defence links in the coming time as heard at their 10th defence policy dialogue.
Deputy Defence Minister Nguyen Chi Vinh said there are two successful points at the 2019 Shangri-La Dialogue which took place in Singapore from May 31 to June 2.
The defence ties has become one of the important pillars of the diplomatic relations between Vietnam and China, Deputy Defence Minister Nguyen Chi Vinh said at his reception for Ambassador of China to Vietnam Xiong Ba in Hanoi on November 16.
Defence Minister General Ngo Xuan Lich on October 8 hosted a reception for a delegation from the Israeli Defence Ministry led by director general of the ministry Udi Adam, who came to attend the first Vietnam-Israel defence policy dialogue.
Vietnam and the US convened a defence policy dialogue in Hanoi on October 4, discussing measures to enhance the effectiveness of bilateral defence cooperation.
Deputy Defence Minister, Sen. Lieut. Gen Nguyen Chi Vinh expressed his wish to foster defence cooperation, a pillar in Vietnam – the Republic of Korea (RoK) ties during a meeting with RoK Deputy Foreign Minister Kang Jeong-sik in Seoul on September 12.
Vietnam and the UK have agreed to set up a mechanism of defence policy dialogue at the deputy ministerial level, with the first event expected to take place later this year.
Deputy Defence Minister Sen. Lt. Gen. Nguyen Chi Vinh on August 7 received the outgoing French Defence Attaché in Vietnam Maj. Christophe Talon and his successor Lt. Maj. Marc Razafindranaly.
The 6th Vietnam-Japan defence policy dialogue took place in Tokyo on July 4 under the chair of Vietnamese Deputy Defence Minister Sen. Lt. Gen. Nguyen Chi Vinh and Japanese Deputy Defence Minister Ro Manabe.
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