Myanmar’s military-appointed President Min Aung Hlaing yesterday wound up a three-day visit to Vietnam, during which he and Hanoi’s top leaders agreed to expand cooperation across a broad front.
The former general arrived in Vietnam on Friday, part of a diplomatic campaign aimed at consolidating ties with regional governments and normalizing relations with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
In addition to meeting top leaders including President To Lam and Prime Minister Le Minh Hung, Min Aung Hlaing also held meetings with top Vietnamese firms such as VinFast, a local EV manufacturer, and the military-run telecoms group Viettel, which operates Mytel, one of Myanmar’s major telecom operators.
According to a Vietnamese government statement quoted by Reuters, a key focus of the talks between Lam and Min Aung Hlaing was defense and security cooperation, which the two leaders elevated to a key pillar of bilateral ties.
In particular, the two leaders “agreed to expand cooperation in military training, exchanges between young officers, search-and-rescue operations and disaster response, while stepping up information sharing and coordination against crimes,” the statement said.
