Minister of National Defence General Phung Quang Thanh received visiting
Admiral Kawano Katsutoshi, Chief of Staff of the Japan Maritime Self
Defence Force (JMSDF), in Hanoi on May 2.
At
the meeting, the General said that Vietnam-Japan defence cooperation has
experienced new developments which are reflected by visits of the two
defence ministries’ leaders and the establishment of a deputy
minister-level defence strategic dialogue mechanism between the two
armies.
Thanh spoke highly of the intensive and
extensive development of the two countries’ navies, focusing on training
Vietnamese military students and sharing experience in building and
developing naval forces.
For his part, Kawano
Katsutoshi expressed his wish to continue strengthening the cooperation
between the two armies in general and the two navies in particular.
During his stay in Vietnam, the Japanese guest paid tribute to
President Ho Chi Minh at his mausoleum and visited the Navy High Command
and other units of the Vietnam People’s Navy.-VNA