Venezuela, VN step up defence cooperation

Major General Ngo Minh Tien, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Viet Nam People’s Army (VPA) receives Lieut. Gen. Omar Alexis Montes Meza to Viet Nam, Ha Noi, May 29 , 2018

At the reception, Omar Alexis Montes Meza said the visit offers an opportunity for Venezuelan officers to learn from the VPA’s experience in logistics services and other areas, thus enhancing friendship between the two countries’ people and armies

For his part,  Major General Ngo Minh Tien, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Viet Nam People’s Army (VPA) has called on the Vietnamese and Venezuelan armies to exchange delegations and experience in Party-building and political and logistics work. 

Mr. Tien stressed that Viet Nam remembers the support of Venezuelan people during the country’s struggle for national liberation and reunification. 

He highlighted consolidated ties between the two countries’ armies in recent days, especially the Venezuelan Defence Ministry’s dispatch of high-ranking defence researchers to Viet Nam and its opening of a defence attaché office in Ha Noi in August 2017. 

 By Vien Nhu