May 21, 2019 | 21:48 (GMT+7)
Vietnam, Belarus and Russia to strengthen their partnership
PANO – Senior Lieutenant General Be Xuan Truong, member of the Party Central Committee and Deputy Minister of National Defense, led a Vietnamese military high-ranking delegation to visit Belarus and Russia from May 16 to 21.
The visits were made at the invitations of the State Committee for Military Industry of Belarus and the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation of Russia.
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Senior Lieutenant General Be Xuan Truong |
During their stays in Belarus and Russia, the Vietnamese delegation had talks with leaders of the two host agencies to review outcomes of their military and technical cooperation over the past time and map out cooperation directions for the following years.
Particularly, the Vietnamese delegates attended the opening ceremony and took part in sideline activities of the International Exhibition of Arms and Military Machinery 2019 (MILEX-2019) in Minsk, Belarus, and toured several defense industry facilities in Kazan, Russia.
The successful visits to Belarus and Russia by General Truong and other Vietnamese senior officers have contributed to expanding their bilateral defense cooperation in accordance with the Vietnam-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership and the Vietnam-Belarus partnership.
Translated by Van Hieu