4:59:09 PM | 7/26/2017
Defence Minister General Ngo Xuan Lich on July 25 hosted a reception for Secretary of Russia’s National Security Council Nikolai Patrushev, who is on a working visit to Vietnam.
At the meeting, General Lich highlighted the fruitful development of the traditional friendship and comprehensive strategic partnership between Vietnam and Russia across all fields, including cooperation in national security and defence.
He also commented on the effective collaboration between the Vietnamese Ministry of National Defence and the Russian council.
In reply, Nikolai Patrushev expressed his belief that the relationship between Vietnam and Russia will be further deepened, particularly in the field of national defence, thanks to a memorandum of understanding signed by the two countries in 2013.
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