VN, Russia enhance cooperation in defense, military techniques

Photo: VNA

The statement was made on March 6 at the talks between Deputy Minister of Defense Be Xuan Truong and Russian Deputy Director of the Federal Service for Military Technical Cooperation Vladimir Nikolaevich Drozhzhov, who are chairmen of Vietnamese and Russian subdivisions, respectively, of the Viet Nam-Russia Inter-governmental Committee on Military Technical Cooperation.

At the talks, the two sides hailed the active development in Viet Nam-Russia Strategic Partnership, especially the Russian Defense Minister’s visit to Viet Nam in early 2018, which created a new force for the development of defense cooperation between the two nations.  

They appraised the role and meaning of the defense cooperation in general and the bilateral military technical cooperation in particular.  

Mr. Vladimir Nikolaevich Drozhzhov congratulated the Viet Nam-Russia Tropical Centre, on its 30th founding anniversary.

The scientific research organization in Viet Nam was founded on March 7, 1988. 

By Thuy Dung