The Vietnamese team at the Vietnam - India Bilateral Army Exercise 2022 (Source: VNA)Addressing the event, Vietnamese Ambassador to India PhamSanh Chau said the UN peacekeeping exercise is to implement the joint actionplan for 2021 - 2023 agreed upon by the two countries’ leaders.
He expressed his hope that their common achievements will bespread to other fields other than bilateral military ties and cooperation in UNpeacekeeping operations.
For his part, Lt. Gen. Prateek Sharma,Commander of the II Corps of India’s Western Command, described thedrill as an important stride in bilateral defence cooperation which opened upnew opportunities for more practical partnerships between armed forces of Indiaand Vietnam, thereby helping strengthen both countries’ peacekeeping capacity.
During the exercise since August 1, the two countries’ forcesfocused on performing engineering and medical tasks in UN peacekeepingoperations. Each side sent 45 personnel to the drill.
VINBAX 2022, the third exercise on UN peacekeeping betweenVietnam and India, was upgraded from two previous sand table exercises held in2018 and 2019./.
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