PANO – The Department of External Relations under the Ministry of National Defense kicked off a refresher course in 2016 for the staff in charge of defense relations in units in the northern region on September 12 in Hanoi.

At the opening ceremony

Former Deputy Prime Minister Vu Khoan attended and delivered a speech at the opening session of the course.

Opening the course, Lieutenant General Vu Chien Thang, Head of the Department of External Relations, stressed that the course was designed to provide basic information about the guidelines and policies on international integration of the Party and State, including those on defense relations. The course also aims to equip the staff in charge of the work with knowledge of defense relations activities, policies, laws, and more so that they could better organize defense relations activities, and create synergy for defense relations work at the operational and strategic levels, meeting the requirements of defense relations missions in the new period.

The head of the Department of External Relations believed that trainees would successfully fulfill the course and later apply the acquired knowledge to the reality of defense relations work of their units.

Translated by Huu Duong