Vietnam kicks off training course for UN staff officers

The Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations on April 14 held an opening ceremony for its second training course for UN staff officers with the support of the US’s Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI).
Vietnam kicks off training course for UN staff officers ảnh 1At the event (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - The Vietnam Department ofPeacekeeping Operations on April 14 held an opening ceremony for its secondtraining course for UN staff officers with the support of the US’s Global PeaceOperations Initiative (GPOI).

The course is taking place in both online and face-to-face formsfrom April 12 to 28. It is designed to prepare Vietnamesetrainees who are about to join UN peacekeeping missions.

Participants also include officers involving in management, advisory work, research, and teaching at units related to peacekeeping missions inside and outside of the Defence Ministry.   

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, foreign lecturers are set tojoin the course virtually.

The training is expected to helps improve the department’scapacity for organising international training courses on UN peacekeeping operations, withthe aim of turning Vietnam’s UN peacekeeping training facility into a qualityone in the region.

Colonel Nguyen Ba Hung, deputy head of the department, statedthe organisation of this course shows a flexible adaptation to a difficultcontext in a bid to better prepare Vietnamese forces for participation in the UNpeacekeeping mission.

It also contributes to strengthening the friendly relationsbetween Vietnam and the US, the EU, and other partners in this field, he noted.

Stein Ellingsen, head of the foreign lecturer team to thecourse, highly appreciated Vietnam for becoming a reliable contributor to UNpeacekeeping operations, and congratulated the nation on successfully deployingits level-2 field hospitals in South Sudan and soon its first engineer team inAbyei./.

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