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Japan hails Vietnam’s performance in hosting CEPPP

As the co-chair of the Competency Evaluation Programme for Prospective United Nations Peacekeepers (CEPPP) together with Vietnam, Japan has highly evaluated Vietnam’s preparations and organisation of the event.
Japan hails Vietnam’s performance in hosting CEPPP ảnh 1Delegates at the CEPPP (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – As the co-chair of the CompetencyEvaluation Programme for Prospective United Nations Peacekeepers (CEPPP)together with Vietnam, Japan has highly evaluated Vietnam’s preparations andorganisation of the event.

Director for Defence Cooperation in the Indo - Pacific Region at Japan’s Ministry of DefenceMatsuzawa Tomoko, who is also the co-chairof the PKO-EWG, thanked the Vietnamese side for the warm welcome for theJapanese delegation as well as other international delegations.

The CEPPP is an activity under the ASEAN Defence Ministers’Meeting Plus (ADMM-Plus) Experts’ Working Group on Peacekeeping Operations (PKO-EWG)Cycle 4, which is taking place on September 13-21.

Matsuzawa Tomoko said that Vietnam and Japan have workedtogether for three years to achieve targets of the current cycle. Thanks to theactive cooperation from Vietnam and member countries, the two sides havesuccessfully organised many important activities, noted the Japanese official,expressing her gratitude to consultations and support from UN experts andassistance from member countries.

Highlighting the overall purpose of the CEPPP in fosteringthe partnership among member countries during performing mission within theframework of the UN peacekeeping operations at the tactical level, the officialsaid that Japan and Vietnam have focused on ensuring the practicality of theactivities and the integration of viewpoints regarding gender equality.

Matsuzawa Tomoko underlined the achievements that the twosides have gained in promoting the role of women in peace and security, which isone of the major targets of the current cycle.

Japan hails Vietnam’s performance in hosting CEPPP ảnh 2At the opening ceremony of the CEPPP on September 13 (Photo: VNA)
She noted that Japan has formed a platform for women inpeace and security and conducted a series of conferences in the field byinviting prestigious experts from UN peacekeeping missions and UN headquarters.For the CEPPP, Vietnam and Japan have included practical circumstances andfactors regarding the role of women in the activities to prepare forparticipants to perform their missions.

Expressing her confidence in the engagement and contributions of Vietnam, Matsuzawa Tomoko said she believes that the programmewill complete all of its targets, contributing to strengthening thecollaboration among all ADMM-Plus member states.

She also called for all ADMM-Plus members to work togetherto achieve all CEPPP goals.

The CEPPP, drawing nearly 300 experts, trainees and observers fromADMM-Plus member countries, is the last activity of the PKO-EWG Cycle 4 withinthe framework of the ADMM-Plus.

The co-hosting of the CEPPP has shown Vietnam’s role andresponsibility in multilateral and bilateral cooperation mechanisms in the fieldof UN peacekeeping operations within the ADMM-Plus framework. Through theactivity, Vietnam hopes to make contributions to the enhancing of efficiency ofUN peacekeeping operations by ADMM-Plus member states./.
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