VOV.VN - Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Hien, Deputy Minister of National Defence of Vietnam, paid a courtesy call on Lao Defence Minister Senior Lieutenant General Khamliang Outhakaysone on the morning of July 10 as part of a Vietnamese delegation accompanying Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung on his official visit

VOV.VN - General Phan Van Giang, Politburo member, Deputy Secretary of the Central Military Commission, and Minister of National Defence, hosted a reception in Hanoi on July 5 for Chief of Defence Forces of Thailand Gen. Songwit Noonpackdee during his official visit to Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Vietnam’s Defence Minister Phan Van Giang and Singapore’s Minister for Defence and Coordinating Minister for Public Services, Chan Chun Sing agreed to enhance defence cooperation between the two countries, during their meeting in Singapore on May 31.

Minister of National Defence General Phan Van Giang on May 26 said that ample room remains for defence cooperation between Vietnam and France when he met with French Minister of the Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu who is escorting French President Emmanuel Macron on a State visit to Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Vietnam and Laos will work closely to effectively and comprehensively implement a defence cooperation plan for 2025 and a defence cooperation protocol for 2025-2029.

Minister of National Defence General Phan Van Giang hosted a reception in Hanoi on March 24 for a visiting high-level delegation from the Ministry of National Defence of Poland led by its Secretary of State Pawel Bejda.

VOV.VN - Senior Lieutenant General Hoang Xuan Chien, Deputy Minister of National Defence of Vietnam, and Thobekile Gamede, Acting Secretary for Defence of South Africa co-chaired the third Vietnam-South Africa Defence Policy Dialogue in Hanoi on February 25.

VOV.VN - Deputy Minister of National Defence of Vietnam Hoang Xuan Chien and his Canadian counterpart Stefanie Beck reviewed defence cooperation between the two countries while co-chairing the third Vietnam-Canada Defence Policy Dialogue in Hanoi on February 20.

Deputy Minister of National Defence Sen. Lieut. Gen Hoang Xuan Chien received newly-appointed Cambodian Military Attaché in Vietnam Maj. Gen. Leang Sovannara in Hanoi on March 27.

The fourth Vietnam – Laos ministerial-level defence policy dialogue was held in the northwestern province of Dien Bien on March 20 under the chair of Deputy Defence Minister Sen. Lieut. Gen. Hoang Xuan Chien and his Lao counterpart Vongkham Phommakone.