PANO - Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Chi Vinh, Deputy Minister of National Defense, on May 6th hosted a reception for trainees of the Capstone Training Course of the US National Defence University on their visit to Vietnam.

US National Defence University in Washington DC. Photo: ndu.edu

At the reception, General Vinh said that the visit, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic ties between Vietnam and the US, would help the US delegation learn more about Vietnam and its people, contributing to strengthening bilateral defence cooperation between the two nations.

General Vinh also briefed the US officers on the Vietnam's national defence policies and answered their questions on the two sides' defence cooperation as well as regional issues in recent years.

Translated by Trung Thanh