Training course on environment and military science information for Lao officers concluded

Lao trainees receive certificates.

During the course, 25 Lao officers were provided with knowledge related to environment and on how to tackle environmental pollution caused by post-war chemicals and unexploded ordnance (UXO). They were also updated with military science information as well as skills of writing and publishing articles and filming and editing videos of conferences. 

The Lao trainees had fact-finding trips to the Military Logistics Academy, the Division of Military Science under the Environmental Monitoring Center of the Navy, the Chemical Corps, the Institute for Development of New Technologies of the Vietnam - Russia Tropical Center, and the Vietnam Museum of Military History.

Speaking at the closing ceremony, jointly held by the Department of Military Science of the Ministry of National Defense (MND) and the Military Technical Academy (MTA), the MTA’s Deputy Political Commissar Senior Colonel Tran Van Duy congratulated Lao officers on their successful completion of the training course and hoped that they would flexibly apply acquired knowledge and experience to their future task performance, thus enhancing the quality and effectiveness of military science and environment management, response to climate change, prevention of environmental pollution, and settlement of consequences of post-war chemicals and UXO and contributing to strengthening the special friendship and solidarity between the two countries and militaries.

The Lao Defense Ministry’s representative hands over souvenirs to the Department of Military Science and the Military Technology Academy.

On behalf of the trainees, Lieutenant Colonel Nuon Kham Thepvongxay, head of the delegation of Lao officers, thanked the Vietnamese MND’s Department of Military Science and the MTA for facilitating their training. He affirmed that information acquired during the training course was valuable to Lao officers and promised that they would flexibly apply those knowledge, experience, and models to their task performance, contributing to the further development of environment and military science information work of the Lao Defense Ministry.

Translated by Tran Hoai