Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry of National Defence held a ceremony in Hanoi on December 31 to hand over the State President’s decisions to deploy four officers to UN peacekeeping missions.
The officers have been carefully vetted and fully meet the UN’s stringent standards. They are ready to replace personnel currently serving with the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), and to take up new posts at the UN Liaison Office for Peace and Security in Brussels, Belgium.
Among them, Senior Lieutenant Colonel Vu Thi Lien, Assistant of the Training Department at the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations, was selected for the position of Security and Defence Policy Specialist at the UN Liaison Office for Peace and Security in Brussels, Belgium. She is the first female Vietnamese officer to hold a post at the UN Office, marking an important milestone in the professional and deepening international integration of Vietnam’s peacekeeping forces.
Lieutenant Colonel Dang Thu Ha, a former editor at the People’s Army Newspaper, has been assigned to replace Senior Lieutenant Nguyen Huyen Anh as the Military Public Information Officer (MPIO) at the MINUSCA.
Captain Nguyen Huy Khai, Foreign Affairs Assistant at Military Hospital 175, has been assigned to replace Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Huy Tuan as the Chief of Equipment (COE) officer at the MINUSCA. Captain Khai previously served with the Level-2 Field Hospital No. 3 under the UNMISS mission in South Sudan, gaining practical experience in a multinational and multicultural environment.
Senior Lieutenant Nguyen Thi Ngoc Tram of the Vietnam Coast Guard has been assigned to replace Lieutenant Colonel Bui Thi Minh Nguyet as the Staff Officer for Training (SO Training) at the the MINUSCA. She is the first female officer from the Coast Guard to be deployed individually, having received formal training as a military, gender and communication observer, and completed multiple specialised courses domestically and abroad, fully prepared to meet the mission’s requirements.
Major General Pham Manh Thang, Director of the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations, commended the agency and relevant agencies for their thorough preparations and training, ensuring readiness for deployments to UN peacekeeping missions and key UN offices, expressing his belief that the selected officers will perform their duties with excellence in their assigned roles.
On behalf of the deployed officers, Lien affirmed that they will fully comply with Vietnamese law, the laws of the host country, military discipline, and UN regulations. She stated that in addition to their professional duties, the officers will actively monitor and assess the field situation to ensure the absolute safety and security of personnel and equipment, while also promoting the image of the Vietnamese soldiers in the international arena./.
