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The officials highlighted the importance of ensuring freedom, security, and safety of navigation and overflight in the East Sea (known internationally as the South China Sea), and the need to promote commitments and the implementation of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea (DOC), and soon conclude negotiations and sign a substantive, effective Code of Conduct of Parties in the East Sea (COC) in accordance with international law, including the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
Vietnamese and US defence chiefs have met to discuss measures to promote bilateral defence cooperation, focusing on war consequences settlement and humanitarian aid such as bomb and mine clearance, dioxin remediation, and searching for soldiers missing during wartime in Việt Nam.
Over the past years, the two countries have reaped positive results in their defence cooperation, especially in the settlement of war consequences, United Nations peacekeeping operations, personnel training and military healthcare, and cooperation between armed services
Vietnamese defence minister invited leaders of the Cambodian Ministry of National Defence and army to the second Việt Nam International Defence Expo and celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the Việt Nam People’s Army next year.