Japan supports Vietnam in deployment of sapper team No 1 to join UNISFA

At the event. (Photo: qdnd.vn)

Hanoi (VNA) – Lieutenant General Phung Si Tan, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA), on December 29 hosted a reception for a group of experts from the Japanese Ministry of Defence who is on a working visit to Vietnam to assist the country in the deployment of sapper team No 1 to join the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in Abyei (UNISFA).

At the event, Tan highly valued the initial results achieved in the meeting between the Japanese expert delegation and the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations as well as related agencies. Accordingly, the two sides have basically agreed on the details of contents, methods, and working programmes and discussed the classification and packing of equipment of for sapper team No. 1, ensuring it follows the plan and has good quality, he said.

He held that this reflected the close and thoughtful coordination of the two sides, the professionalism and responsibility of the Japanese experts as well as the very serious preparation of the sapper team in particular and Vietnam's Ministry of National Defence in general.

Previously, the experts from the Japanese Ministry of Defence and the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations conducted an assessment of the actual workload and requirements relating to equipment packaging. They also exchange professional skills in order to improve the capacity of the sapper team during its mission at UNISFA.

Japan is one of the countries with a lot of experience in packing equipment to be transported to United Nations Peacekeeping Missions after successfully deploying the sapper team to the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in South Sudan between 2012 and 2017./.