Lieutenant General Nguyen Dinh Chien, who isDirector of the National Defence Strategies Institute, made the remarksat a defence seminar in India’s capital city of New Delhi on May15 and 16.
The seminar is held annually by theMinistry of National Defence’s Institute for Defence Strategy of Vietnamand the United Service Institution (USI) and the Institute for DefenceStudies and Analyses (IDSA) of India .
Chien further added that defence cooperation has become a symbol of the two countries’ friendship.
The exchanges of high-ranking delegations and dialogues on nationaldefence strategies have benefited the two armed forces’ mutual trust andunderstanding, creating a new momentum for bilateral cooperation andfriendship to grow in all fields, Chien said.
Theseminar is seen as an important channel for the two countries toexchange views on regional security issues of mutual concern, especiallyanalyses, and predictions on potential threats to national security anddefence in respective country.
The Vietnamesedelegation put on table presentations on security situation in theAsia-Pacific and related issues of mutual concern while the host sidetalked about how to deal with non-traditional security risks andexperience in peacekeeping operations deployed by the United Nations.
The annual event is a concrete activity under a cooperationagreement signed among the three afore-mentioned institutes.-VNA