Deputy Chief of the General Staff receives international guest

Senior Lieutenant General Pham Ngoc Minh (R) receiving Major General Michael Stencel at the defense ministry's headquarters

At the reception, the two sides agreed that the bilateral defense ties have been progressively developing as an essential part of the comprehensive partnership between the two countries recently. Notably, several joint cooperative fields could be named as humanitarian relief, disaster response, UN peacekeeping operations and war aftermath relief.

General Minh affirmed that Vietnam highly valued the role of the US in the region and hope both sides’ militaries would continue to further their bilateral defense ties on a basis of equality and mutual respect for peace and stability in the region and the world as a whole.

Translated by Trung Thanh