Trong stressed the need to participate more in U.N. peacekeeping operations, and carry out tasks such areas as logistics, liaison and military police, adding that this is a long-term goal set out by the department.
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Vietnam's first engineering company and level-2 field hospital rotation 4 make their debut. |
According to him, participating in U.N. peacekeeping operations is a major policy of the Vietnamese Party and State, and also an important task of the Vietnam People's Army in the new period, contributing to realizing the foreign policy of peace, cooperation, development, multilateralization and diversification of international relations.
Vietnam's engagement in U.N. peacekeeping operations over the past seven years has brought many positive results, and opened up new directions of the task implementation, becoming a prominent milestone in defense relations, he stated.
The colonel said that for the first time, Vietnam recently made debut an engineering unit to participate in U.N. peacekeeping, marking a new development step in expertise and level.
Compared to the level-2 field hospitals Vietnam has deployed before, the engineering unit is larger in number with 184 professional officers and soldiers. The unit will also carry with it about 2,000 tons of equipment to the U.N. Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA), including around 150 machines.
In the coming time, the set goal is to successfully deploy Vietnam's first engineering unit to the U.N. peacekeeping mission and complete all the tasks assigned by the U.N. for the humanitarian mission.
Vietnam must continue to keep up the good quality of its level-2 field hospitals to maintain the existing reputation among the missions, he added.
Source: VNA