The team includes four officers very experienced in joining and commanding Indianengineer units on UN peacekeeping missions.
The Indian experts will also share experience in deployment activities of UNpeacekeeping missions.
As part of the plan approved by the Vietnamese Ministry of Defence, thetraining programme focuses on an overview of UN peacekeeping activities, basicissues of UN peacekeeping operations in missions, task of sappers in UNpeacekeeping missions, and situations in UN peacekeeping missions.
Vietnam and India signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) oncooperation in UN peacekeeping operationslast year.
The Indian side has provided training for a huge number of Vietnamese officersin this field, with mobile training team’s visit helping realise theMoU.-VNA