The Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations (Ministry of Defense) opened a training course for the United Nations staff officers under the support of the US Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI) in Hanoi on April 14.
Major General Hoang Kim Phung, Director of the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations and EU experts attend the opening ceremony. (Photo: VNA)
EU experts attend the opening ceremony and give lectures during the course (Photo: VNA)
Trainees attending the course (Photo: VNA)
Leaders of the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations, EU experts and trainees at the opening ceremony of the course. (Photo: VNA)
Major General Hoang Kim Phung, Director of the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations, talks to the trainees during the course. (Photo: VNA)
The Ministry of National Defence held a ceremony in Ho Chi Minh City on March 24 to bid farewell to the staff of the level-2 field hospital No. 3 setting off for Bentiu, South Sudan, to join the United Nations peacekeeping mission.
The Ministry of National Defence held the 14th meeting of the Experts’ Working Group (EWG) on peacekeeping operations, fourth cycle, for the 2021-2023 period via video conference on April 6, within the framework of the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting Plus (ADMM+).
The Defence Ministry held a ceremony on April 9 to present the President’s decision to send Major Nguyen Phuc Dong from the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations, to take up a position at the United Nations headquarters in New York.
Vietnam for the second time assumed the role of rotating President of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for the 2020-2021 tenure this month, thus making a new and important imprint in the process of transforming from a participant to an active and proactive UN member.
