Foreign Relations Department promotes its key role in defence diplomacy
Monday, May 27, 2019, 15:10 (GMT+7)
As the leading agency of the Ministry of National Defence in foreign relations, in the past 55 years (May 28th 1964 – May 28th 2019), the Foreign Relations Department (FRD) has simultaneously fulfilled its assigned tasks. Bringing into play this glorious tradition, the Department has synchronously and proactively been implementing measures to improve the quality and efficiency of defence diplomacy in the time of international integration, making contributions to the protection of the Homeland by peaceful means
Actively and comprehensively implementing measures for 2017 defence diplomacy
Wednesday, March 29, 2017, 16:19 (GMT+7)
In the past years, under the leadership of the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defence, the defence diplomacy has emerged as an effective weapon in the cause of Homeland’s protection and construction. In 2017, the task of defence diplomacy should be comprehensively implemented with practical and effective measures, making contribution to the common foreign affairs of the Party and State
Studying, making and implementing appropriate policies for the Vietnamese peacekeepers
Friday, July 01, 2016, 09:52 (GMT+7)
Together with joining the UN peace keeping operations, we have studied, proposed and implements a number of appropriate policies for the peace keepers. Implementing the direction of the Prime Minister, the Ministry of National Defence has built study plan, dispatched missions and dialogued with peace keepers; proposed mechanism and policies and supply for Vietnamese peace keepers in missions to South Sudan, Mali, Central Africa, the UN Headquarters in New York, USA.
Enhancing the VPA’s participation in the UN peacekeeping operations
Wednesday, December 02, 2015, 09:12 (GMT+7)
It can be said that Vietnam’s participation in the UN peace keeping operations (UNPKO) has marked a new development in diplomacy and international integration in general and that of defence in particular which is manifested in the following points.
Vietnam, US defence chiefs hold talks
Tuesday, June 02, 2015, 10:55 (GMT+7)
Defence Minister General Phung Quang Thanh held talks with visiting US Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter in Hanoi on June 1, during which both sides agreed defence cooperation during the past time has met the requirement of the MoU on this field signed in 2011 between the two countries.
Deputy Defence Minister: East Seas issue is global concern
Monday, June 01, 2015, 11:25 (GMT+7)
The East Sea issue is a regional and global concern, Deputy Defence Minister Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Chi Vinh told the Vietnam News Agency on May 30, on the sidelines of the 14th Shangri-la Dialogue in Singapore
Vietnam, UN seek to strengthen multi-faceted cooperation
Saturday, May 23, 2015, 08:52 (GMT+7)
State President Truong Tan Sang and the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon discussed measures to promote the multidimensional cooperation between Vietnam and the UN in the coming time in Hanoi on May 22
Vietnam attends ASEAN defence minister meeting
Tuesday, March 17, 2015, 09:27 (GMT+7)
A high-ranking delegation led by Defence Minister General Phung Quang Thanh is joining other ASEAN member nations for the 9th ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting (ADMM-9), which officially opened in Malaysia on March 16
A snapshot of Japan’s 2014 Defence White Paper
Friday, December 26, 2014, 13:32 (GMT+7)
Japan’s Government, in August 2014, released its 40th Defence White Paper-the 2014 Defense of Japan . The main content of this issue is Japan’s position on the protection of her territory, territorial waters, and airspace in the context of regional unstable security
Enhancing the effectiveness of international integration in defence to meet the requirements in the cause of Fatherland construction and defence
Tuesday, December 23, 2014, 16:47 (GMT+7)
International integration, including that in defence, is a strategic guideline of our Party. In light of Resolutions of the 10th and 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam on international integration, over the years, our defence has deeply and extensively intergrated into the world, and achieved important results.