Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) Lieut. Gen. Nguyen Van Nghia attended the virtual 21st ASEAN Chief of Army Multilateral Meeting (ACAMM-21) on November 24.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on November 14 called on New Zealand to open its door wider for goods and agricultural products of ASEAN countries as the sides have substantial potential for cooperation.
The Vietnamese Embassy and Defence Attaché Agency in Laos held a ceremony in Vientiane on December 13 to celebrate the 75th founding anniversary of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) and the 30th All-People’s Defence Festival (December 22).
The Vietnamese Ministry of National Defence has officially assumed the role of Chair of ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting (ADMM) and ADMM Plus for 2020.
A high-ranking military delegation of Vietnam is attending the eighth Moscow Conference on International Security that opened in the Russian capital on April 24.
Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong and visiting Sultan of Brunei Haji Hassanal Bolkiah agreed to lift the bilateral relations to a comprehensive partnership at their talks on March 27.
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh led a delegation to attend the ASEAN Post-Ministerial Conference sessions with its partners, namely Japan, China, Russia and New Zealand, held in Singapore on August 2 within the framework of the 51st ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM 51).
Carlyle A. Thayer- Emeritus Professor, the University of New South Wales, has a article on the Vietnam-Australia ties on the occasion of the official visit to Australia by PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc from March 14-18.
The 15th ASEAN Chiefs of Defence Forces Informal Meeting (ACDFIM-15), themed “Strengthening Collaboration, Building Resilience”, took place in Singapore on March 8.
Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh had a bilateral meeting with Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop who is in Vietnam for the APEC Economic Leaders’ Week in Da Nang city on November 8.
Defence Minister General Ngo Xuan Lich and a Vietnamese delegation attended the 11th ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting (ADMM) that opened in Manila, the capital of Philippines on October 23.
Japan and the Republic of Korea (RoK) expressed their commitments to supporting Vietnam’s initiatives in addressing regional security challenges on the sidelines of the ongoing 50th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM 50) on August 8.
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh has stressed the need for ASEAN+3, the East Asia Summit and the ASEAN Regional Forum to promote cooperation on the basis of ensuring ASEAN’s central role.
Defence officials from member countries of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) discussed outstanding regional security issues at the ASEAN Security Policy Conference that opened in Manila on June 29.
ASEAN-China relations and the East Sea issue dominated a special meeting of foreign ministers of ASEAN and China in Kunming, in the Chinese province of Yunnan on June 14.
A Vietnamese delegation led by Major General Vu Tien Trong attended the 13th ASEAN Regional Forum Security Policy Conference (ASPC) in Laos’s former capital city of Luang Prabang on May 6 .
Ambassador Nguyen Phuong Nga, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the United Nations, has highlighted the UN Charter’s significance in maintaining international peace and security.
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