PANO – Japan is willing to share experience with Vietnam in training peacekeepers and building up units to perform UN peacekeeping operations.

This announcement was made by Ms. Shuko Ogawa, Head of the Japanese peacekeeping delegation, at a meeting with Senior Lieutenant General Vo Van Tuan, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army, in Hanoi on December 15th.

Senior Lieutenant General Vo Van Tuan receiving Ms. Shuko Ogawa

She also briefed the Vietnamese general on the outcomes of talks with the Vietnam Peacekeeping Centre. Accordingly, the two sides will soon roll out agreements reached at talks between their defence ministers in Hanoi in November, particularly in establishing working groups to share Japan’s experience in the UN peacekeeping operations to Vietnam.

This was the first Japanese delegation to directly work with Vietnam’s peacekeeping force. In the coming time, more Japanese experts will arrive in Vietnam.

The Japanese side hoped that their cooperation on the UN peacekeeping activities would produce the desired effect and there would be more qualified Vietnamese individuals and units to join the UN missions.

In turn, the Vietnamese officer highly valued the responsibility and capacity of Japanese troops in joining the UN peacekeeping operations and believed in the deeper cooperation between the two peacekeeping forces.

Translated by Van Hieu