Hanoi (VNA) – Rear Admiral Nguyen Duy Ty of the Naval Region 5 High Command held phone talks with the Commanders of Thailand’s First and Second Naval AreaCommands on December 29.
At thetalks, the sides underlined that joint activities between the countries’ navieshave reaped positive results, thereby promoting cooperation, mutualunderstanding and trust, as well as maintaining maritime zones of peace andstability that foster economic development.
In thecoming time, they will continue to exchange information via established communicationchannels, as well as fully and effectively implement agreements on regulations on joint patrolon bordering sea areas signed by the naval forces of Vietnam and Thailand in1999.
The sidesare to closely join hands in settling maritime incidents on the sea.
They also agreed to propose the countries' Defence Ministries to continue sending patrol ships to each other's ports once the pandemic is put under control./.