National Assembly (NA) Vice Chairman Gen. Do Ba Ty (right) and Deputy Secretary of Defence Patrick Shanahan (Source: VNA)

At the meetings, General Ty reaffirmed Vietnam’s foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, diversification and multilateralisation of international relations, with importance attached to consolidating and developing the bilateral comprehensive partnership with the US.

The Vietnamese delegation recommended potential aspects for the two sides to intensify cooperation in supervision and legislative affairs, economics, trade, security and defence, particularly in addressing war consequences such as dioxin detoxification, support for AO/dioxin victims, bomb and mine clearance, and searching for missing servicemen of both sides.