PANO - Senior Lieutenant-General Do Ba Ty, Chief of the General Staff, Deputy Defence Minister yesterday received the visiting Vice Admiral Matthieu Borsboon, Commander of the Netherlands Royal Navy and his entourage at the Defence Minister’s Headquarters.

Vice Admiral Borsboon briefed General Ty on the results of the exchanges between his delegation members and Vietnam Command of the Navy on marine safety and security.

Senior Lieutenant-General Do Ba Ty receives Vice Admiral Matthieu Borsboon

Vice Admiral Borsboon stressed that through exchanges with senior officers of the Navy of Vietnam, they had further understanding of Vietnam’s position and admiration for strong developments of Vietnam’s Navy over the time.

For his part, General Ty emphasised fruitful cooperation between the two defences since Vietnam and the Netherlands’ Defence Ministers signed an MoU on bilateral defence cooperation last September.

General Ty agreed on contents of the working session between Vietnam and the Netherlands’ Navies and hoped that the two navies would boost their cooperation on training cadres, shipbuilding, studying Vietnamese and Dutch language and exchanging information and measures to cope with the climate change at sea.

The Dutch Vice Admiral promised to share information and experience on pirate control and support Vietnam with marine surveys. Relating to marine security, more exchanges would be made to build Corvette and other ships to be signed with Daman Shipyards Group.

On this occasion, General Ty conveyed his invitation to the Commander-in-Chief of the Netherlands Royal Army to visit Vietnam.

Mai Huong