Vietnam and the European Union (EU) have inked an agreement on the establishment of a framework for Vietnam’s participation in crisis management activities of the EU.
Senior Lieutenant General Phan Van Giang, Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) and Deputy Defence Minister, and a high-ranking delegation from the VPA left Vietnam on August 13 to start an official visit to Russia and attend the closing ceremony of the Army Games 2019 there.
The Ministry of Defence held a ceremony in Hanoi on January 18 to celebrate the 70th founding anniversary of the Lao People’s Army (January 20, 1949 - 2019).
Representatives of the national steering committee for searching for and repatriating Vietnamese martyrs’ remains have paid a working visit to China to discuss cooperation in the field.
Minister of Public Security General Tran Dai Quang met senior US
security and diplomatic officials in Washington D.C on March 18, who
hailed his visit as a promising start of celebrations for the 20 th
anniversary of bilateral diplomatic ties.
Politics
XIII National Congress of Communist Party of Vietnam
