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Int’l conference to be held to improve Vietnam’s peacekeeping capacity

Vietnam and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will chair an international conference in early September, aiming to improve the country’s capacity of taking part in UN peacekeeping activities.
Int’l conference to be held to improve Vietnam’s peacekeeping capacity ảnh 1The working session between foreign military attachés and officers of the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations on July 19 (Photo: qdnd.vn)

Hanoi (VNA) –Vietnam and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will chair aninternational conference in early September, aiming to improve the country’scapacity of taking part in UN peacekeeping activities.

The information was released by a representativeof the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) while talking toforeign military attachés who visited the department on July 19, Quan doi Nhandan (People’s Army) newspaper reported.

The attachés learned about the development ofthe DPKO as well as the country’s participation in United Nations peacekeepingactivities in recent years.

On behalf of the delegation, Defence Attaché ofSouth Africa Mpiwa Kgotso Abiel lauded Vietnam’s effective participation in UNpeacekeeping activities. He also congratulated the DPKO on being chosen as atraining site for UN peacekeeping forces within the framework of the tripartilepartnership programme.

The attachés also discussed peacekeepingcooperation with Vietnam in the future.

The DPKO, previously the Vietnam PeacekeepingCentre, opened in 2014.

Since then, the country has sent 20 officers tothe UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in the Central AfricanRepublic and the UN Mission in South Sudan. It is preparing to deploy a level-2field hospital to South Sudan.-VNA
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