Vietnam's contributions to UN peacekeeping operations
Vietnam is one of 125 countries taking part in the UN peacekeeping activities. The country has sent officers to the UN peacekeeping missions in the Central Africa Republic and South Sudan.
Seven officers from the Vietnam Peacekeeping Centre will be dispatched to the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic and South Sudan in 2018.
The army of Bangladesh and Vietnam can share experience and work together in various fields, especially in United Nations peacekeeping operations and natural disaster prevention and relief, said a Bangladeshi diplomat.
Vietnam’s first level-2 field hospital will leave for its mission in South Sudan shortly, marking a big stride forward of the Vietnamese blue-beret force while affirming the Government’s policy to boost intensive and extensive international integration.
Sen. Lieut. Gen. Be Xuan Truong, Deputy Defence Minister, received a Russian delegation led by Lieut. Gen. Luralenko Sergey Vasilievich, Deputy Commander-in-chief for Peacekeeping Operations of the Russian Ground Forces in Hanoi on June 14.
The selection of Vietnam as a training site for UN peacekeeping forces in ASEAN demonstrates the UN’s high evaluation for Vietnam’s activeness and capacity to contribute to UN peacekeeping activities, said a military officer.
The Ministry of Defence hosted a meeting of the Vietnam Inter-sectoral Working Group for Participation in the UN Peacekeeping Operations on September 21 in Hanoi.