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Vietnam’s peacekeeping force ready to receive tasks in South Sudan

Deputy Minister of National Defence Sen. Lieut. Gen. Nguyen Chi Vinh on September 29 assigned tasks to military doctors of Vietnam’s first level-2 field hospital who will travel to South Sudan on October 1 to undertake the UN’s peacekeeping mission.
Vietnam’s peacekeeping force ready to receive tasks in South Sudan ảnh 1Field hospital's military doctors (Source: VNA)

HCM City (VNA) – Deputy Minister of National Defence Sen. Lieut.Gen. Nguyen Chi Vinh on September 29 assigned tasks to military doctors ofVietnam’s first level-2 field hospital who will travel to South Sudan onOctober 1 to undertake the UN’s peacekeeping mission.

Vinh, who is head of the DefenceMinistry’s steering committee for the participation in UN peacekeeping mission,asked the hospital staff to strictly follow the Party, State and Army’s foreignpolicy, as well as regulations of the UN and the Mission, and laws of Vietnamand the host country.

Vietnam’s engagement in the UN’speacekeeping activities is a breakthrough to consistently implement the Party’sforeign policy of independence, self-reliance, peace, cooperation anddevelopment.

It also marks a change in bothquality and quantity in multilateral cooperation in general and in defence andsecurity in particular, while demonstrating the Vietnam People’s Army’s role inthe country’s revolutionary cause and in implementing international duties.

This is the first time Vietnamhas sent military doctors to participate in the UN’s peacekeeping force. Thesee-off ceremony will be organised on October 1 at Ho Chi Minh City-based TanSon Nhat International Airport.

The military doctors, most ofwhom are from Military Hospital 175, will travel to South Sudan, along withmedical equipment, to take over a field hospital of the United Kingdoms whosepersonnel are about to withdraw.-VNA
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