Vietnamese will do its utmost to preserve, protect and nurture the solidarity and comprehensive cooperation with Cambodia, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam and President Nguyen Phu Trong has said.
An exhibition highlighting the traditional friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation between Vietnam and Laos opened on at Kaysone Phomvihane Museum in Vientiane, Laos.
A five-day exercise simulating a hostage rescue and plane seizure held by Philippines and US forces to refocus their military alliance towards counter-terrorism finished on September 26.
A seminar was held in the south central province of Binh Thuan, to look into the five and a half decades of the special friendship and comprehensive cooperation between Vietnam and Laos.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said that he will keep in place existing agreements and military alliance with the US despite his plans to end all future joint military exercises with the ally.
A number of German papers recently ran stories highlighting Vietnam–US
cooperative prospects on the occasion of the first US visit by Party
General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.
The 70 year-history of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) has been written
with glorious victories, inspiring national liberation movements of
suppressed nations around the world in the past as well as significantly
contributing to the current national defence and construction, said
Ambassador to France Nguyen Ngoc Son.
The Military Attaché Office at the Vietnam Embassy in Berlin held a
ceremony on December 10 to mark the 70th anniversary of the Vietnam
People’s Army (VPA), gathering about 160 Vietnamese and German guests.
Over 300 former Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and military experts for
missions in Laos got together in Hanoi on October 30 on the occasion of
the 65th anniversary of their traditional day to reminisce on what
they went through alongside Lao soldiers during the war against the
French and Americans.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has underscored that Vietnam will
resolutely defend its sovereignty and legitimate interests because
territorial sovereignty, including over its maritime zones and islands,
is sacred.
Laos’ Deputy Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism Bounguen
Sapouvong has hailed the Dien Bien Phu Victory as a vivid symbol of the
special solidarity and friendship as well as the great military alliance
between Laos and Vietnam
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is approaching its
goal of establishing a stronger and more active framework, named the
ASEAN Community, by 2015. The formation of community will bring the bloc
even closer together and improve the lives of people across the region,
Vietnamese Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh has stressed in an interview
granted to the press and the Vietnam News Agency.
Minister of National Defence, Gen. Phung Quang Thanh received Cuban
Deputy Minister of Revolutionary Armed Forces, Sen. Lieut. Gen Joaquin
Quintas Sola, in Hanoi on September 19.
A meeting to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Vietnam-Laos diplomatic
ties and the 35 years since the signing of the Friendship and
Cooperation Treaty was held solemnly in Vientiane on July 18.
Vietnamese and Lao politicians, war
veterans and historians have recalled common hardship experiences
during two major wars 60 years ago, when soldiers from the two
neighbours shared “every grain of salt and every stalk of vegetables”.
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