The 12th Party Congress of the Viet Nam People’s Army, the 2025–2030 tenure, opened in Ha Noi on September 30 morning.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh had a working session on the defence industry with the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defence on September 27.

Party General Secretary To Lam, Secretary of the Central Military Commission, attended and delivered key guidance at the 11th Whole-military "Determined to win" Emulation Congress for the 2020–2025 period held by the commission and the Ministry of National Defence in Ha Noi on September 24.

The Ministry of National Defence held a departure ceremony at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City on September 22 to send off Level-2 Field Hospital Rotation 7 and Engineering Unit Rotation 4 to the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA).

The participation of foreign military personnel in the upcoming parade on September 2 is seen as a powerful symbol of national and international solidarity for peace, cooperation, friendship, and development, said Deputy Minister of National Defence Sen. Lt. Gen. Hoang Xuan Chien.

The Vietnamese Ministry of National Defence has invited its counterparts from Russia, China, Laos, Cambodia, Cuba, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Azerbaijan, to attend the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the August Revolution (August 19, 1945) and National Day (September 2).

The Ministry of National Defence convened a conference on July 7 to review Viet Nam's international integration and defence diplomacy efforts during the first half, and set directions and tasks for the remainder of the year.

The Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defence held an art programme in Ha Noi on July 3 evening, marking the 10-year review of the army’s implementation of the 12th-tenure Politburo’s Directive No. 05 on promoting the study and following of President Ho Chi Minh’s thought, morality, and lifestyle.

Women’s participation in peacekeeping operations was the main focus of a conference jointly held by the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations under the Ministry of National Defence and the Defence Attaché Office of the Australian Embassy in Hanoi on November 3.