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Enhancing international integration and defence diplomacy under the Party’s foreign lines

Enhancing international integration and defence diplomacy under the Party’s foreign lines

Friday, December 13, 2024, 15:41 (GMT+7)
The Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defence have carried out the work of international integration and defence diplomacy synchronously, comprehensively, effectively, achieving many significant results. The VPA has actively, proactively given advice to the Party and State on dealing with strategic issues relating to military - defence tasks, security, and border protection, well managing defence relations with other countries, particularly our neighbours, major powers, and strategic partners

Practical experience refutes distortion of "Vietnamese Bamboo Diplomacy"

Practical experience refutes distortion of “Vietnamese Bamboo Diplomacy”

Monday, July 22, 2024, 20:24 (GMT+7)
In recent years, the term “Vietnamese Bamboo Diplomacy” has been frequently mentioned when referring to the foreign activities of our Party and government. This term summarises and symbolises the foreign policy that the Communist Party of Vietnam has been persuing, based on President Ho Chi Minh’s diplomacy motto of “firm in objectives, flexible in strategies and tactics”.

The entire military undertakes innovation and creativeness to successfully complete military, defence missions in 2023

The entire military undertakes innovation and creativeness to successfully complete military, defence missions in 2023

Friday, February 10, 2023, 09:45 (GMT+7)
2023 is a pivotal year to implement the Resolution of the 13th Party Congress and the Resolution of the 11th Military Party Congress. It is also the year when the VPA has to adjust its organisation seriously. The entire military needs to proactively surmount difficulties, resolutely strive for making new leaps forward, and better accomplish their missions as compared to 2022, contributing to maintenance of a peaceful, stable environment for the building and development of the country and firm protection of the Vietnam socialist Fatherland in the new situation.

Bringing into play its good results, the entire Military enhances defence diplomacy work to meet the requirements of national protection

Bringing into play its good results, the entire Military enhances defence diplomacy work to meet the requirements of national protection

Tuesday, April 12, 2022, 22:47 (GMT+7)
Defence diplomacy is part of national diplomacy, tasked with implementing the Party’s guidelines on protecting the Homeland from afar, preventing conflicts, settling all disputes by peaceful means, and making contributions to protecting national independence, sovereignty, unification, and territorial integrity and creating a peaceful, stable environment for national construction and protection

Shangri-La Dialogue 2019 - the region’s security issues and Vietnam’s contributions

Shangri-La Dialogue 2019 - the region’s security issues and Vietnam’s contributions

Monday, July 22, 2019, 05:56 (GMT+7)
Asia’s Security Summit - the 18th Shangri-La Dialogue was held in Singapore from May 31st to June 2nd 2019 amidst the complex developments of the security situation in the world and the region, which necessitated the regional countries in particular, the international community in general discussing and seeking the solutions. At the Dialogue, Vietnam proposed many important initiatives which were highly appreciated by the international community

Shangri-La Dialogue: Vietnamese Defence Minister calls for peaceful solutions to disputes

Shangri-La Dialogue: Vietnamese Defence Minister calls for peaceful solutions to disputes

Monday, June 03, 2019, 11:17 (GMT+7)
Vietnamese Defence Minister Ngo Xuan Lich called on parties concerned to work together to solve disputes in peaceful atmosphere, with partnership spirit and for community responsibility while addressing the fifth plenary session of the 18th Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on June 2

Vietnam’s status negates all distortions

Vietnam’s status negates all distortions

Saturday, April 27, 2019, 18:11 (GMT+7)
One of the acts of sabotage by the hostile forces is to distort and negate the achievements in the renewal cause led by the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV). However, Vietnam’s increasingly high status in the international arena disproves all those distortions

10 notable defence-military events around the globe in 2018

10 notable defence-military events around the globe in 2018

Saturday, January 05, 2019, 06:55 (GMT+7)
In 2018, the world witnessed historic dialogues and intense strategic competition between major powers. To depict the world in 2018, the National Defence Journal would like to introduce 10 notable defence-military events

The 17th Shangri-La Dialogue – regional issues and Vietnam’s role

The 17th Shangri-La Dialogue – regional issues and Vietnam’s role

Tuesday, July 24, 2018, 16:44 (GMT+7)
The 17th Shangri-La Dialogue (hereafter the SLD) took place in Singapore from the 31st of May to the 3rd of June, 2018. This SLD attracted the participation of nearly 600 representatives including 40 Defence Ministers – a record number ever. That expresses the special attraction of the SLD and the great regard paid by countries to peace, stability and prosperity of the Indo-Pacific Region

Changes in a globalized and integrated world - opportunities and challenges

Changes in a globalized and integrated world - opportunities and challenges

Friday, April 13, 2018, 15:18 (GMT+7)
Under the impact of globalization and international integration, today’s world is witnessing changes in various aspects of social life, including the shift of power from the West to the East and major powers’ adjustments in their strategies which have created opportunities and posed challenges to small and medium-sized countries

Great Spring Victory and aspirations for national rise
50 years have elapsed, but the epic of the Great 1975 Spring Victory, with the historic Ho Chi Minh Campaign as its pinnacle, forever resounds through the nation and every single Vietnamese citizen. Under the Party’s glorious flag, that epic continues to resonate on the front of production, in the fight against hunger, poverty, and backwardness, in the protection of sacred national sovereignty over borders, seas, and islands