The Ministry of National Defence on September 25 handed over the State President’s decisions to three officers, who will join the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) and the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS).
The three are Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen My Hanh, and Captain Pham Thi Mai Ngan, who will work at UNISFA, and Major Hoang Van Kien, who will go to UNMISS.
Kien will fly to the UN mission on September 28, while the others are scheduled to leave Vietnam in early October, according to Colonel Pham Manh Thang, Director of the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations.
Addressing the event, Senior Lieutenant General Phung Si Tan, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army (VPA), asked the department to continue selecting personnel for the UN forces in line with regulations, and build a suitable roadmap to improve foreign language skills for Vietnamese peacekeepers.
Vietnam has to date deployed 786 officers to the UN peacekeeping missions in Abyei, Central African Republic and South Sudan, and the UN Headquarters.
VOV.VN - Vietnamese peacekeeping forces, including the Military Engineering Unit No.1 and the Level-2 Field Hospital No.4, held a departure ceremony on April 27 at Noi Bai International Airport ahead of their work at the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) mission.
Nations need to actively support and implement the Declaration of Shared Commitments on UN Peacekeeping Operations 2018, Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, head of Vietnam’s permanent mission to the United Nations, has said.
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