At the working session (Source: qdnd.vn)Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam wants to exchange experience with Thailand in organisingtraining courses, and promote delegation exchanges on UN peacekeeping operations,a Vietnamese senior officer said on September 10.
At a reception in Hanoi for a delegation of Thailand’s Peace Operations Centre(POC), Major General Hoang Kim Phung, Director of the Vietnam Department ofPeacekeeping Operations, lauded Thailand’s support for Vietnam in peacekeepingactivities.
The visit by the Thai delegation, led by POC Director, Major General JensitKonsil, aims to step up bilateral collaboration in UN peacekeeping, especiallyafter Vietnam has assumed the posts of Chair of the Association of Asia-PacificPeace Operations Training Centres and the host of the eighth Annual GeneralMeeting of ASEAN Peacekeeping Centres Network in 2020. Next year, Vietnam willalso co-chair the Experts’ Working Group on Peacekeeping Operations within theframework of the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting (ADMM ) for 2020-2023.
During the visit, the two sides considered sealing an agreement on cooperationin delegation exchange and experience sharing regarding peacekeeping activities.
They agreed to make UN peacekeeping collaboration a regular part of exchanges,consultations and high-level dialogues between Vietnam and Thailand.
Thailand will continue to invite Vietnamese officers to training courses andexercises held by the country, and take into consideration the dispatch of experiencedexperts to Vietnam to share experience in preparing and deploying sappers to UNpeacekeeping missions, and holding training courses.
Earlier, the Thai delegation visited the Vietnam Military Medical Universityand the second level-2 field hospital which will be sent to the UN peacekeepingmission in South Sudan.
The same day, Vietnam’s UN peacekeeping sappers engaged in an exchange withtheir UK colleagues, during which they discussed preparations of equipment offorces, the deployment of sappers and logistics./.
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