QND - General Phan Van Giang, Politburo member, Deputy Secretary of the Central Military Commission, Minister of National Defense, led a high-ranking delegation of the Vietnamese Ministry of National Defense to attend the International Military-Technical Forum 2023 (Army 2023) and the 11th Moscow Conference on International Security (MCIS-11) from August 13 to 17 in Moscow, at the invitation of General Sergei Shoigu, Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation. The delegation included Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Nghia, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army.
This morning (August 14), General Phan Van Giang attended the Plenary Session, the Opening Ceremony and visited the booths at Army 2023, including Vietnam's booth. This year, the General Department of Defense Industry and the Military Industry and Telecommunications Group (Viettel) attended and displayed 240 Vietnamese defense industry products at Army 2023.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov visits the booth displaying Vietnamese defense industry products at Army 2023
Army is an exhibition and comprehensive forum organized annually by the Russian Ministry of Defense since 2015 at the Patriot Exhibition and Convention Center (outside Moscow), attracting many countries, businesses and defense industry organizations to participate and display and introduce defense products. The forum is one of the largest international exhibitions of weapons and technical equipment in the world.
The forum includes an exhibition of advanced products of the Russian defense industry and partner countries; field demonstrations of weapons and technical equipment of the Army, Navy and Air Force of the Russian Federation and partner countries; scientific seminars on military technology and defense industry...
Army 2023 attracted the participation of delegations from nearly 60 countries, including many delegations at the level of Minister of Defense and Chief of General Staff; about 1,500 Russian defense companies and 85 foreign companies.... At Army over the years, Vietnam has maintained sending high-level delegations to attend, and in 2018, Vietnam officially participated in displaying products.
* On the same day, General Phan Van Giang also had a meeting with the Head of the Lao Delegation at Army 2023 to discuss cooperation between the two sides.
* On the sidelines of Army 2023, Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Nghia met with leaders of Rosoboronexport Corporation of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the National Committee on Defense Industry and General Director of Beltechexport Company of Belarus to discuss defense industry cooperation.
News and photos: NGOC HA (from Moscow, Russia)
