Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Military Cooperation Between Vietnam And Singapore

Found this today.

People's Daily Online September 25, 2007

Vietnam, Singapore to enhance military cooperation

Vietnam and Singapore have agreed to promote military cooperation, and exchange more military delegations, local newspaper Vietnam News reported Tuesday.

The two sides reached the agreement during the meeting between Vietnamese Defense Minister Phung Quang Thanh and his visiting Singaporean counterpart Teo Chee Hean here Monday.

During the meeting, they also discussed the army construction in each country, anti-terrorism, humanitarian assistance and peace- keeping, and reviewed the bilateral cooperation on socioeconomic development, national defense, security enhancement and language training.

Teo's visit would enhance mutual understading and the friendly cooperation between the armies and peoples of the two countries, Thanh said.

Source: Xinhua

3 comments:

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it is actually on the mindef website.

BACTS said...

Oh yes, thank you, I saw that a while after I post mine. When I found it from People's Daily eailier, didn't want to wait. :)

.::: .: :.:. :.: ... ::: :. .::. .: :. ::. said...

haha, today's (9oct07) tomorrow.sg also got one blog say india and singapore cooperate closely but nothing from mindef....sigh....world nowsadays so transparent....mdia management is difficult to coordinate. mindef is actually quite transparent about such matters....like for example, replacing out airborne early warning planes, news was out in april...but janes, a military journal, is only reporting now...