Colonel Hoang Kim Phung speaks at the workshop. (Source: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnam PeacekeepingCentre on December 7 and France’s Embassy in Vietnam organised a workshopexchanging experience on the sending of a sapper unit to the United Nations (UN)peacekeeping missions.
Colonel Hoang Kim Phung, Director of the centre, saidthis is the second time Vietnam and France have exchanged expertise on the UNpeacekeeping activities.
The workshop, assisted by France, manifests the commitment of the defenceministries of the two countries in implementing contents of the technicalagreement on defence cooperation in the UN peacekeeping activities, which wassigned on November 10, 2016.
Apart from preparing for the level 2 fieldhospital, Vietnam is arranging training and equipment for the sapper team totake part in the UN peacekeeping missions in the coming time.
RemiLambert, First Counsellor of France’s Embassy in Vietnam, appreciated Vietnam’sparticipation in the UN peacekeeping activities by sending officers to UNmissions in South Sudan and the Central African Republic.
Participatingin the UN peacekeeping activities is the Party and State’s big policy torealise the external policy of multilateralising and diversifyingrelationships. Until now, Vietnam has sent 12 officers to UN missions.
Despitethe small number of officers in UN missions, the effectiveness and quality of Vietnameseofficers have been appreciated by leaders of UN missions.-VNA
