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Vietnam's first engineering unit marches for UN mission in Abyei

The remaining 156 members of Vietnam’s Engineering Unit Rotation 1 arrived in Abyei at 2pm on June 15 (local time) to join the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA), finishing their four-day march – part of the UN’s peacekeeping operations, the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations announced on June 16.
Vietnam's first engineering unit marches for UN mission in Abyei ảnh 1Soldiers of Vietnam's Engineering Unit Rotation 1 (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The remaining 156 members of Vietnam’s Engineering Unit Rotation1 arrived in Abyei at 2pm on June 15 (local time) to join the United NationsInterim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA), finishing their four-day march –part of the UN’s peacekeeping operations, the Vietnam Department ofPeacekeeping Operations announced on June 16.

With a distance of more than 10,000 km crossing six countriesand territories by both road and air, this operation is the longestof its kind of the Vietnam People's Army.

The first 28 members of Vietnam’s Engineering Unit Rotation1 left the homeland on May 3 and arrived in Abyei on May 5.

Established in 2014 and debuted in November 2021, the184-member unit has been the biggest of Vietnam to join UN peacekeepingmission to date.

Since the end of March, more than 2,000 tonnes of equipmentand goods serving the unit have been delivered to the mission in Abyei bysea./.
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