AFP Chief of Staff LtGen Bartolome Vicente Bacarro met with Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Tan Cuong, Chief of General Staff of Vietnam People's Army and Vice Minister of National Defense of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam on Monday, November 7, at the General Headquarters in Quezon City.
The meeting between the two military leaders emphasized the importance of defense cooperation in managing and promoting regional peace and stability. The Philippines and Vietnam currently have a Memorandum of Understanding on Defense Cooperation signed in 2010 and a 1999 Aide Memoire between Navies that enable military student exchanges, navy-to-navy interaction, and intelligence exchange between the two armed forces. (Photos by PO3 Viluan Ret/PAO, AFP)
