Vietnamese naval ship attends activities in Singapore
Naval Missile Frigate 011-Dinh Tien Hoang left Cam Ranh Military Port on May 8 afternoon for Singapore to attend celebrations of the 50th founding anniversary of the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN).
Missile Frigate 011-Dinh Tien Hoang leaves Cam Ranh Military Port (Source: qdnd.vn)
Hanoi (VNA) – Missile Frigate011-Dinh Tien Hoang of the Vietnam People’s Navy (VPN) left Cam Ranh MilitaryPort on May 8 afternoon for Singapore to attend celebrations of the 50th founding anniversary of the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN).
The ship, with 137 officers and sailors onboard, will join the International Maritime Review, Multinational Sea Exercisewithin the framework of the 6th Western Pacific Navy Symposium (WPNS-6),Maritime Information Sharing Exercise 2017, and International Maritime DefenseExhibition Asia 2017, Quan doi Nhan dan newspaper reported.
The trip aims to realise foreign policies onactive international integration of the Party, State, Central MilitaryCommission and Defence Ministry.
It also shows the VPN’s responsibility as amember of the ASEAN Naval Commander Meeting and the WPNS.
Additionally, the visit aims to show theVPN’s goodwill in promoting relations with the RSN and with ASEAN and regionalnavies.
On the same day, ship 8004 of the VietnamCoast Guard Command on board was dispatched to visit China.
The China visit is the first friendly visitto a foreign country of a Vietnamese coast guard ship.
The visit bolsters friendship, mutual understandingand trust between the two forces.
During the visit, the Vietnamese missionwill pay a courtesy call to the leadership of Hainan province, hold talks withthe Chinese coast guard force, visit Nanhai Division of the Chinese CoastGuard, and share experience in preventing transnational crimes and on assistingpeople in distress at sea.-VNA
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Missile Frigate 011-Dinh Tien Hoang leaves Cam Ranh Military Port (Source: qdnd.vn) 
