Belarusian Defence Minister in Hanoi for official visit
Minister of National Defence Phan Van Giang on December 17 held talks with his Belarusian counterpart Viktor Gennadievich Khrenin who is leading a high-level delegation from the Belarusian Ministry of Defence to pay an official visit to Vietnam and attend the Vietnam International Defence Expo 2024 from December 16-19.
Minister of National Defence Phan Van Giang (left) and his Belarussian counterpart Viktor Gennadievich Khrenin review the guard of honour during the welcoming ceremony in Hanoi on December 17. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Minister of National Defence Phan Van Giang on December 17 held talks with his Belarusian counterpart Viktor Gennadievich Khrenin who is leading a high-level delegation from the Belarusian🧔 Ministry of Defence to pay an official visit to Vietnam and attend the Vietnam International Defence Expo 2024 from December 16-19.
Welcoming the guests, Giang underscored that the Vietnamese people and the Vietnam People’s Army always remember and value the significant support and assistance that people of the Soviet Union, including the Republic of Belarus, had given to Vietnam’s past struggle for national liberation and reunification.
Highlighting the effectiveness of Vietnam-Belarus defence cooperation in recent times, the minister noted that this collaboration aligns with the traditional friendship and multifaceted cooperation between the two countries as well as international treaties and agreements that they have signed. He proposed that the two sides will continue to coordinate to effectively implement agreed-upon cooperative contents, particularly high-level delegation exchanges; military medical training; military history research; military communications and participation in multilateral international events hosted by each side.
Giang asked the Belarussian Ministry of Defence to consider offering additional scholarships to Vietnamese military personnel to study at Belarusian defence training institutions. He affirmed Vietnam’s readiness to welcome Belarusian military personnel to take Vietnamese language courses at the Military Science Academy and defence official training programmes at the National Defence Academy, aiming to make bilateral defence cooperation more substantive and effective.
Minister Khrenin, for his part, affirmed that the Belarusian Ministry of Defence will closely coordinate with its Vietnamese side to effectively implement the agreed initiatives, further enhancing the Belarus-Vietnam relationship.
He took the occasion to extend an invitation to Minister Giang to pay an official visit to Belarus and attend the 12th International Exhibition of Arms and Military Machinery Milex -2025.
Mentioning regional and global issues of mutual concern, Minister Giang reiterated Vietnam’s consistent stance of resolving disputes through peaceful means, based on international law, including the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). He emphasised the need to fully implement the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea (DOC) and expedite the conclusion of an effective and substantive Code of Conduct in the East Sea (COC) in line with international law.
On this occasion, the two defence ministers signed a number of cooperation agreements to further advance bilateral relations./.
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