Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, head of the Vietnamese Permanent Mission to the UN (Photo: VNA) New York (VNA) –Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, head of the Vietnamese Permanent Mission to the UNshared Vietnam’s experience in promoting collaboration with partners to supportthe deployment of level-2 field hospitals in South Sudan at a discussion on enhancingthe efficiency of UN peacekeeping in New York on December 6.
Vietnam, the co-organiser of theevent, is considered one of the countries with strong performance in buildingefficient partnership in UN peacekeeping operations in South Sudan.
Quy said that Vietnam startedsending personnel to UN peacekeeping missions in 2014. So far, 40 Vietnameseofficers have been deployed to the UN peacekeeping missions in South Sudan andCentral Africa.
The first level-2 field hospitalof Vietnam replaced the UK’s hospital in October 2018 and operated effectivelyin the host country, he noted.
The Vietnam Peacekeeping Departmenthas been selected as one of the four centres in Southeast Asia meetinginternational standards in training personnel for peacekeeping operations.
At the event, which also saw theattendance of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and representatives frommore than 100 UN member nations, delegates underlined the significance of UNpeacekeeping activities.
The UN chief stressed thatimproving the performance of peacekeeping activities is a common responsibilityof all involving parties. He also called for the international community to fullyimplement the Action for Peacekeeping initiative.
In order to enhance theeffectiveness of peacekeeping operations, participants held that peacekeepingforces should adhere to their duties, especially protecting civilians.
Countries engaging in theoperations must ensure that the personnel they send to the missions are trainedand equipped with knowledge to UN standards, they said, adding the need tobuild criteria on the supervision of the activities as well as the supply offinance and equipment, the increase of women’s involvement in the operations,and the strengthening of information and transparency.
They agreed on the need to designan effective mechanism to handle violations by peacekeeping forces./.
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