Attending the Ceremony were Major General Do Ngoc Can, Deputy Director General of the Political General Department; Major General Tran Gia Cuong, Director of External Affairs Department - Ministry of Public Security; representatives of subordinate units. As for the PPA were Lieutenant General, Prof.Dr. Nguyen Xuan Yem, President of the PPA; members of the Directorate of the Academy, leaders of the units.

Senior Lieutenant General Dang Van Hieu believed that the two Agencies 

would have the effective coordinative activities

In recent years, based on the attention of the leadership of the Ministry of Public Security and the close coordination of the functional units, especially the Department of External Affairs, the international cooperation of the PPA has been constantly expanded, improved the efficiency and achieved the significant results in many fields: Joint Program in training Master with the University of Maryland - United States; Cooperation and student exchange programs with the Korean National Police University, the Royal Cadet Police Academy of Thailand and the cooperative training for security forces, police force of Laos, Cambodia and Palestine. The PPA has participated in many international forums on police training such as: ASEANAPOL Police Training Cooperation Meeting; International Association of Police Academy (INTERPA); International Police Executive Symposium (IPES), etc. and numerous workshops, international trainings in recent years. For the external affairs of the Ministry of Public Security, the PPA has made a positive contribution. The Academy in collaboration with the Department of External Affairs has participated in the cooperative activities of the Public Security force, received and worked with lots of high-level delegations to visit and work with the Ministry of Public Security.

Major General Tran Gia Cuong hoped that the signing ceremony would open up 

many opportunities and conditions for cooperation between the two Agencies

By the attention of the leaders of the Department of External Affairs, the two Agencies have actively promoted, exchanged and agreed to sign the “Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the People's Police Academy and Department of External Affairs - Ministry of Public Security”. The MOU defined the coordinative principles, contents and responsibilities of each side in each cooperative field. This is the basis to strengthen and implement regularly, extensively the cooperative relationship between the two units in the coming time. The signing ceremony marked the new development in relations between the PPA and Department of External Affairs, opened up more opportunities and conditions for cooperation between the two Agencies to complete the outstanding tasks assigned by the Ministry of Public Security.

Lieutenant General Nguyen Xuan Yem wished that the working aspects

 of two Agencies would be constantly improved

Speaking at the Ceremony, Senior Lieutenant General Dang Van Hieu noted that 2015 was the year with many important events of the country that the Public Security force involved such as the 70^th traditional day of Public Security force and 10 years of the movement of defending national security of entire people. Thus, depending on the actual situation, the contents of the MOU might be changed how to the coordinative activities be essential and effective.

The two Agencies presented souvenirs at the signing ceremony

On behalf of the leaders of the PPA and Department of External Affairs, Lieutenant General, Prof.Dr. Nguyen Xuan Yem adopted the guidance of the Permanent Deputy Minister and proposed that after the signing ceremony, the leaders of two Agencies would direct regularly the subordinate units to implement and specific the cooperative contents in accordance with the functions and duties of each Agency in order to the MOU serve quickly and effectively to the reality tasks of the two Agencies in the new situation.

The delegation visited the facilities of the PPA

After the signing ceremony, the delegation visited the facilities and the cultural works of the PPA.

Written by Quang Do