Vietnam Military Blasts US for Interfering With Russian Refueling Flights

‘A senior Vietnamese military official told Sputnik that the US is interfering in Vietnam’s internal affairs by demanding that the country puts a stop to Russian refueling plane landings at Cam Ranh airbase.

Colonel Le The Mau, a senior military official from the country’s Military Strategy Institute, told Sputnik Việt Nam that the United States’ demand that Vietnam stop allowing Russian refueling planes to land at Cam Ranh airbase amounts to interference in the country’s affairs:

“Washington’s demand that Vietnam [stops allowing refueling planes to land] can be seen as nothing else but interference in the internal affairs of Vietnam, a sovereign state which determines its own policies for cooperating with its friends and partners.”‘

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