In an interview granted to the Vietnam News Agency in New York following Party General Secretary and State President To Lam’s attendance at the U.N. Summit of the Future and the 79th session of the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA 79), Lacroix noted that Vietnam has deployed forces to U.N. peacekeeping missions, including Level-2 field hospitals, to South Sudan and, more recently, engineering companies to the U.N. mission in Abyei.
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Officers, soldiers of the Engineering Company Rotation 1 and Level 2 Field Hospital Rotation 4 set out to carry out their mission. |
The number of the Vietnamese personnel in peacekeeping missions is steadily increasing, including both men and women as well as police officers, both at the U.N. headquarters. He spoke highly of the quality of Vietnam's peacekeepers, adding that these developments reflect the excellent level of cooperation between Vietnam and the U.N.
Affirming the U.N.’s desire to expand and intensify cooperation with Vietnam, the U.N. official said that on the sidelines of the UNGA 79, he met the Vietnamese Ministers of National Defense, and Public Security to discuss orientations to further promote the bilateral relations, including personnel training and capacity building.
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U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix |
As a ministerial meeting is expected to take place in the coming time, focusing on future peacekeeping activities, the U.N. hopes that by then, participants will contribute good ideas to implementing peacekeeping missions effectively and in line with the current international context.
It is conducting an assessment of peacekeeping operation methods to adapt to current global challenges, Lacroix said, looking forward to Vietnam's cooperation in this common effort.
Source: VNA