PANO - 011 Dinh Tien Hoang frigate under Brigade 162, Naval Region 4, on January 23rd docked at the Changi Port of Singapore.

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Welcoming the ship and the crew members were representatives from the Singaporean Navy and the Vietnamese defence attaché office to Singapore.

Colonel Janiel Toh, Head of the Singaporean Navy’s Protocol Department, received the Vietnamese guests and underlined that the visit would boost the cooperation between the two countries in general and the two navies in particular.

The two sides in a group photo

In return, Senior Colonel Le Xuan Thuy, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Vietnam People’s Navy and Head of the mission, thanked the host for the warm reception and said that it is the second time a Vietnamese warship has visited Singapore.

The Vietnamese mission will visit the Vietnamese Embassy to Singapore and leaders of the Singaporean Navy, and has friendly sports games with Singaporean naval soldiers.

Over the past time, Vietnam and Singapore have witnessed developments in defence cooperation, especially their agreement on bilateral defence cooperation signed in 2009.

In 2010, leaders of the two Navies inked an agreement on the establishment of a joint working group. To date, they have held five annual working sessions. Besides, through this mechanism, they signed some important cooperation documents in fields of mutual concern.

Translated by Van Hieu