At the meeting with Malaysian Minister of Defense Dato’ Seri Mohamed Khaled bin Nordin, General Phan Van Giang congratulated Malaysia on successfully hosting ASEAN military and defense meetings during its 2025 ASEAN Chairmanship, contributing to promoting intra-ASEAN cooperation. The two sides highly valued the active implementation of cooperation areas agreed upon since August 2026, including delegation exchanges, consultation and dialogue mechanisms, defense industry, cybersecurity, military medicine, and search and rescue. The first Viet Nam-Malaysia Defense Policy Dialogue, held in Ha Noi on October 20, was highlighted as a new step in bilateral defense cooperation.
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General Phan Van Giang holds a bilateral meeting with Malaysian Minister of Defense Dato’ Seri Mohamed Khaled bin Nordin. |
Both sides agreed to continue promoting delegation exchanges, defense industry cooperation, naval cooperation, maritime law enforcement, and search and rescue, while assisting each other’s fishing vessels and fishermen in distress at sea and ensuring humane treatment of those involved in violations.
* During the meeting with Singaporean Minister for Defense Chan Chun Sing, the two sides expressed their pleasure at the substantive development of bilateral defense cooperation in delegation exchanges, dialogue and consultation, training, and exchanges between military services. General Phan Van Giang expressed his confidence that Singapore would successfully assume the 2027 ASEAN Chairmanship. The two sides agreed to continue supporting each other at multilateral forums, particularly the ADMM and ADMM-Plus.
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General Phan Van Giang holds a bilateral meeting with Singaporean Minister for Defense Chan Chun Sing. |
* At the meeting with RoK Minister of National Defense Kang Shin-chul, the two sides affirmed that Viet Nam-RoK relations are at their best stage of development. General Phan Van Giang emphasized that defense cooperation remains an important pillar of bilateral relations and has been effectively promoted through delegation exchanges, training, defense industry cooperation, and efforts to overcome war consequences.
The two sides agreed to continue implementing agreed cooperation areas, particularly the search for, recovery and identification of martyrs’ remains, defense industry cooperation, and mutual support at multilateral forums.
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General Phan Van Giang holds a bilateral meeting with RoK Minister of National Defense Kang Shin-chul. |
General Phan Van Giang expressed his hope that Minister Kang Shin-chul would continue urging the RoK Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) to expand war legacy settlement projects to localities in Viet Nam.
At the meetings, General Phan Van Giang welcomed senior defense ministry leaders from Malaysia, Singapore and the RoK to attend the third Viet Nam Defense Expo in Ha Noi in December 2026, and defense enterprises from these countries to showcase their products at the event.
Translated by Minh Anh