Briefing delegates on the MND’s preparations for ASEAN military-defense activities in 2020, Lieutenant General Vu Chien Thang, Director of the Department of Foreign Relations, affirmed that the ministry has started the preparation for the event early and a project on organizing ASEAN defense and military conferences in 2020 was already approved by the Central Military Commission and Defense Minister in April.

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Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Chi Vinh addresses the conference.

The MND has also decided to establish the ministry's ASEAN 2020 Steering Committee and its sub-committees and approved a plan for the implementation of the project and a list of ASEAN defense and military activities.  

Since the beginning of this year, content consultations for Vietnam’s Chairmanship of ASEAN in 2020 have been carried out at different levels during visits and dialogues and on the sidelines of multilateral events. The steering committee has coordinated with defense and civilian agencies to carry out the preparations in terms of contents, information and training of protocol and foreign language skills.

Addressing the conference, General Vinh praised relevant agencies for their active, proactive and early preparations for the ASEAN Year 2020. He affirmed that Vietnam’s successful fulfillment of ASEAN Chair in 2020 would have important political significance, affirming the position of the Vietnam People’s Army in international integration and the Party’s viewpoints on the work.

He requested that units in the whole military should immediately grasp the aims and significance of the MND’s successful organization of ASEAN meetings and defense-military events in 2020, so as to make proper preparations in terms of human resource, planning and facilities.

Translated by Tran Hoai