Minister of National Defense Phan Van Giang attended the opening ceremony of Army 2023

General Phan Van Giang, Politburo member, Deputy Secretary of the Central Military Commission, Minister of National Defense led a high-ranking delegation of the Ministry of National Defense of Vietnam to attend the 2023 International Military-Technical Forum. Army 2023) and the 11th Moscow International Security Conference (MCIS-11) from August 13.8 to August 17.8 in Moscow at the invitation of General Sergei Shoigu, Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation (LB). Joining the delegation were Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Nghia, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army.

On the morning of August 14.8, General Phan Van Giang attended the plenary session, the opening ceremony and visited the booths at Army 2023, including the Vietnamese booth.

This year, the General Department of Defense Industry and the Military Industry and Telecommunications Group (Viettel) attended and displayed 240 defense industry products of Vietnam at Army 2023.

Minister of Defense Phan Van Giang attends Army 2023

Army is an exhibition and general forum organized by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation annually since 2015 at the Patriot Exhibition and Convention Center (a suburb of Moscow), attracting many countries, businesses and organizations. National defense industry organizations attended and displayed and introduced defense products. The forum is one of the largest international exhibitions of weapons and technical equipment in the world. 

The forum includes the exhibition of advanced products of the defense industry of the Russian Federation and partner countries; field demonstration of weapons and technical equipment of the Army, Navy and Air Force of the Russian Federation and partner countries; seminars on applied science on military engineering and defense industry… 

Minister of Defense Phan Van Giang visits Vietnam's exhibition booth

Army 2023 attracted the participation of delegations from nearly 60 countries, including many delegations of Defense Minister and Chief of General Staff; about 1.500 Russian and 85 foreign defense companies….

At Army over the years, Vietnam maintains high-level delegations to attend, until 2018, Vietnam officially participates in product display.

Minister of National Defense Phan Van Giang visits the Chinese pavilion

On the same day, General Phan Van Giang also had a meeting with the Head of the Lao delegation at Army 2023 to discuss cooperation between the two sides.

On the sidelines of Army 2023, Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Nghia met leaders of Rosoboronexport Corporation of Russia, Chairman of the National Committee on Defense Industry and General Director of Beltechexport Company of Belarus to discuss defense industry cooperation. .