PANO - The Vietnam Peacekeeping Center (VPC) held a conference to review its two years (2014-2016) participating in United Nations peacekeeping operations on August 18. Sen. Lt. Gen. Vo Van Tuan, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army cum Deputy head of the Ministry of National Defense's steering board on Vietnam's participation in the UN peacekeeping operations, chaired the event.

Sen. Lt. Gen. Vo Van Tuan, Deputy Chief of the General Staff. Photo: congluan.vn

According to the report delivered by the VPC Director, Colonel Hoang Kim Phung, Vietnam has sent 12 officers to the UN peacekeeping missions in South Sudan (UNMISS) and Central African Republic (MINUSCA) since June 2014. The Vietnamese peacekeeping personnel overcame difficulties to fulfill their missions with absolute safety and received compliments from leaders of the UN peacekeeping missions for their sense of discipline, solidarity, responsibility and mutual assistance. In addition, the country is ready to deploy a level-two field hospital and an engineering company to UN peacekeeping missions according to its set plan for the 2014-2020 period, he stressed.

Addressing the conference, General Tuan said that the Vietnam peacekeeping operations were one of the most outstanding achievements of the defense external affairs over the past two years. He highly valued efforts of the Vietnamese peacekeeping officers in UN peacekeeping missions. After all, he urged the VPC to closely work with relevant agencies to send more officers and deploy units to UN peacekeeping missions as planned.

Translated by Trung Thanh