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Vietnam opens UN staff officer training course

The Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations opened a training course for UN staff officers with the support of the US’s Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI) on April 14.
Major General Hoang Kim Phung, Director of the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations, talks to the trainees during the course. (Photo: VNA)
Major General Hoang Kim Phung, Director of the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations, talks to the trainees during the course. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - The Vietnam Departmentof Peacekeeping Operations opened a training course for UN staff officers withthe support of the US’s Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI) on April 14.

Director of the Department Maj. Gen. Hoang KimPhung said it has organised the course since 2017 but this is the first timeit has been held via both online and in-person forms due to COVID-19.

The course attracts the participation of 16trainees from 10 units of the Defence Ministry. All have a good professionalbackground and English skills.

Vietnam opens UN staff officer training course ảnh 1Trainees attending the course (Photo: VNA)
The course provides basic knowledge on UNmilitary staff for trainees who are about to join UN peacekeeping missions orparticipate in management, advisory work, research, and teaching at unitsinvolved in peacekeeping missions inside and outside of the Defence Ministry.

It also helps improve the department’s capacityfor organising international training courses on UN peacekeeping, with the aim ofincreasing the quality of the country’s UN peacekeeping training facility.

Vietnam opens UN staff officer training course ảnh 2Leaders of the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations, EU experts and trainees at the opening ceremony of the course. (Photo: VNA)
This is also a chance to intensify the friendshipbetween Vietnam and the US, the EU, and other partners in UN peacekeeping.

Head of the lecturer delegation Julian Bower hailed Vietnam’s efforts to be thefirst country carrying out the GPOI-assisted training course via both onlineand in-person forms./.
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