(VNA) - The third meeting of the Vietnam-France Joint Committee on National Defence Cooperation opened in Hanoi on Wednesday.

Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Chi Vinh, Vietnamese Deputy Minister of National Defence, and Senior Lieutenant General Gratien Maire, Deputy Chief of Staff of the French Army, co-chaired the meeting. At the event, the two sides highly valued the effective cooperation between Vietnam’s Ministry of National Defence and its French counterpart in past years, in particular the all-level delegation exchanges, personnel training, and defence technology and science collaboration. The two sides proposed measures to strengthen cooperation in maritime security, sea patrols, personnel training and the national defence industry.