Vietnam wants to deepen defense cooperation with Spain

The Diplomat To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Vietnam Liberation Propaganda Brigade on December 22, 1944, Ambassador Doan Thanh Song and his Defense Attaché, Viet Cuong Van, hosted a reception in Madrid attended by numerous military attachés. “Defense diplomacy has become a pillar of Vietnam Communist Party (VCP) diplomacy and people-to-people diplomacy,” said Doan Thanh Song, who stressed in his speech that ‘Vietnam consistently abides by the policy of the ’Four NOs' - NOT joining military alliances; NOT siding with one country against another; NOT to allow foreign militaries to establish bases on Vietnamese territory or use Vietnam's territory as leverage to counter others; and NOT to use force or threaten to use force in international relations - to persistently implement the foreign policy line of independence, self-reliance, peace, friendship, cooperation and development” in its foreign policy domain. “The Vietnam People's Army (VPA),” the ambassador added, ”has actively participated in UN peacekeeping, international cooperation in non-traditional security, human assistance, search and rescue, post-war mitigation, thus contributing greatly to international and regional peacekeeping, stability, cooperation and development.” Vietnam has established defense relations with more than 100 countries, and has opened Military Attaché Offices in 35 countries and the United Nations. Currently, there are 42 countries that have Defense Attaché Offices in Vietnam. Doan Thanh Song expressed his “sincere thanks to the Spanish Government and Ministry of Defense for creating all conditions for the Vietnamese Defense Attaché Office in Spain to promote bilateral defense cooperation activities. For his part, the military attaché, Viet Cuong Van - who presented a video reviewing the history of the EPV from its founding to the present - also stressed his desire to “further strengthen, accelerate and deepen the Vietnam-Spain Strategic Partnership relationship”.

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