At the reception, Senior Lieutenant General Hoang Xuan Chien affirmed that Vietnam always attaches importance to the traditional friendship and comprehensive strategic partnership with the Russian Federation and always identifies developing relations with the Russian Federation as one of the top priorities in its foreign policy. The recent official visits to Vietnam by leaders of the United Russia Party, the Federation Council and the Government of the Russian Federation have contributed to strengthening and developing relations between the two countries in many fields, in which defense cooperation plays an important role.

Reception scene

Senior Lieutenant General Hoang Xuan Chien emphasized that in recent times, along with the positive development of Vietnam-Russia relations, defense cooperation between the two countries continues to be effectively implemented in areas such as delegation exchanges, training, unit-level cooperation, scientific research within the framework of the Vietnam-Russia Tropical Center, military history, military medicine, etc.

Senior Lieutenant General Hoang Xuan Chien suggested that in the coming time, the two sides continue to promote the achieved results, effectively implement the 2023 Defense Cooperation Plan, especially the foreign affairs activities of the leaders of the two countries' Defense Ministries such as: The 6th Defense Strategy Dialogue at the Deputy Minister of Defense level, the Standing Conference of the Coordinating Committee on the Vietnam - Russia Tropical Center; At the same time, he suggested that the Russian side promote support for the construction of the "Document set of 70 years of Vietnam - Soviet Union/Russian Federation defense cooperation relations"; expand cooperation in the fields of cyber security, strategic research, etc.

Senior Lieutenant General Hoang Xuan Chien presents souvenir to Ambassador Bezdetko

On this occasion, Senior Lieutenant General Hoang Xuan Chien asked Ambassador Bezdetko, in his position, to pay attention to supporting the promotion of bilateral defense cooperation, contributing to strengthening relations between the two countries.

For his part, Ambassador Bezdetko affirmed that the Russian Ministry of Defense always wishes to consolidate and enhance cooperation with the Vietnamese Ministry of Defense according to signed cooperation documents. The Ambassador said that he will report back to his country to best prepare for upcoming foreign affairs activities of the leaders of the two countries' defense ministries.

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