Union Minister of Defence Rajnath Singh will maintain bilateral talks along with his Vietnamese counterpart Basic Phan Van Giang on the nineteenth of June. Throughout the talks, either side will alternate views on regional and world problems with mutual curiosity.
Mr. Giang shall be on a two days official go to to India. The Minister of Nationwide Defence of Vietnam may even go to Agra throughout his keep in India.
Earlier Conferences
Throughout final 12 months’s go to to Vietnam by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in June 2022, main overarching guiding paperwork have been signed, specifically ‘Joint Imaginative and prescient Assertion on India-Vietnam Defence Partnership in direction of 2030’ and a Memorandum of Understanding on ‘Mutual Logistics Assist’. These have considerably enhanced the scope and scale of defence cooperation between each the international locations. The upcoming assembly will give an additional enhance to the defence cooperation between India and Vietnam.
This comes a month after PM Narendra Modi and Vietnamese PM Pham Minh Chinh held talks in Hiroshima on the sidelines of G7 meet. They mentioned a number of elements of India-Vietnam friendship, significantly in areas like vitality, know-how, commerce, and defence.
Lately, Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA) Secretary Saurabh Kumar additionally had a dialogue with Vice Chairman of Nationwide Boundary Fee of Vietnam Trinh Duc Hai to strengthen India-Vietnam bilateral relations within the realm of defence, safety and maritime cooperation.
India-Vietnam Relations
India and Vietnam share a complete strategic partnership and bilateral defence relations are a powerful pillar of this partnership. Defence engagements between the 2 nations have diversified to incorporate wide-ranging contacts between the providers, military-to-military exchanges, high-level visits, capability constructing, coaching applications, cooperation in UN Peacekeeping, and bilateral workouts.
Each international locations share historically shut and cordial bilateral relations given their historic roots within the widespread wrestle for liberation from colonial rule and the nationwide wrestle for independence.