Hanoi, June 29 -- "We identify saving lives in Venezuela as the same as saving lives in our own homeland," Major General Pham Van Ty, Deputy Director of the Search and Rescue Department under the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army (VPA), said on June 28 ahead of the deployment of a Vietnamese military mission to support earthquake relief efforts in Venezuela. Speaking on the sidelines of the Ministry of National Defence's conference assigning tasks to personnel participating in the humanitarian and disaster-relief mission, Major General Ty, who is head of the Vietnamese military mission to Venezuela, stressed that the deployment reflects Vietnam's commitment to international solidarity and humanitarian responsibility. Immediately ...