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The delegation of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam visited the expert agency of Belarus 4 october 2019

The visit of forensic experts of the Ministry of Public Security of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to the State Forensic Examination Committee ended today.

Remind that in July of this year, the Minister of Public Security of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, General To Lam, and the Chairman of the State Committee, Major General of Justice Andrei Shved, signed an Agreement on cooperation in the field of forensic activity to establish bilateral relations and further maximize the potential of the strategic partnership between the expert agencies of Belarus and Vietnam, in this way securing intentions on the agreement level.

As part of the initial stage of the implementation of the signed interagency document, a delegation from Vietnam arrived in Belarus to determine and discuss prospects for cooperation from September 29 to October 4, 2019. The delegation was headed by the Deputy Director of the Institute of Forensic Science of the Ministry of Public Security, Colonel Khai Duc Truong.

«The Republic of Belarus is our main and most reliable foreign partner in the field of forensic examination activity», - said Mr.Truong during his official meeting with the Chairman of the State Committee. «We visited the laboratories of the State Committee in various expert areas and were impressed by the existing instrumentation, scientific and methodological base, and the level of expert training», - noticed the head of the Vietnamese delegation.

The range of issues that interested Vietnamese colleagues is very wide. During the visit, the guests got acquainted in detail with the expert capabilities, technical equipment and software of the State Committee’s Departments, the conduct of criminalistic recording and crime scene examination in order to introduce positive experience into the practical activities of Vietnam’s forensic experts.

The special interest for the delegates was the practice of conducting special types of examinations, namely explosion examinations, fire and technical examinations, drug and psychotropic substances examinations, organization and maintenance of genomic and ballistics recording.

Following the visit, Vietnamese colleagues expressed their interest in internships on the basis of the State Committee, as well as in further training and retraining at the State Educational Institution «Institution of further training and retraining of the personnel of the State Forensic Examination Committee of the Republic of Belarus».