Antony calls on Vietnam Prime Minister
New
Delhi,
Dec
18:
Defence
Minister
A
K
Antony
met
Vietnamese
Prime
Minister
Nguyen
Tan
Dung
in
Hanoi,
Vietnam,
last
evening.
Dung
complimented
Antony
for
announcing
a
series
of
measures
to
consolidate
and
expand
defence
cooperation
between
the
two
countries.
“The
strategic
partnership
between
India
and
Vietnam
'will
further
speed
up
peace,
stability
and
prosperous
development
in
the
region
and
the
world"," said
Dung.
Describing his ongoing visit as a continuation of the dialogue that Dung had with Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh in New Delhi last July, Antony said, “The two countries are in the process of setting up a Joint Working Group for drawing up a comprehensive MoU on Defence Cooperation."Over the years Indo-Vietnamese Defence cooperation has grown steadily through visits by military delegations, ship visits from India and training of Vietnamese Defence personnel in India.
The Indo-Vietnamese bilateral relationship got a boost in 1994 with the signing of the Protocol on Defence cooperation. Antony will return home on Wednesday.
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