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VNDPKO Deputy Director Senior Colonel Nguyen Ba Hung speaks at the opening ceremony of the course. |
The course lasts from April 12 to 28 at the VNDPKO to provide basic knowledge and skills on U.N. military advisory work at U.N. missions’ headquarters for Vietnamese officers, who are about to join the U.N. peacekeeping operations in the time to come.
The course is held in both online and face-to-face formats with the participation of foreign lecturers from the E.U. and experienced officers of the VNDPKO.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, foreign lecturers are set to join the course virtually.
It is the second time that the GPOI supports a training course for U.N. staff officers in Vietnam. The VNDPKO collaborated with the GPOI to successfully host the first training course for U.N. staff officers in 2017.
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Trainees of the course in a discussion |
The course is expected to help improve the department’s capacity in organizing international training courses on U.N. peacekeeping operations, with the aim of turning Vietnam’s U.N. peacekeeping training facility into a quality training base in the region.
According to VNDPKO Deputy Director Senior Colonel Nguyen Ba Hung, the organization of this course shows a flexible adaptation to a difficult context in a bid to better prepare Vietnamese forces for participation in the U.N. peacekeeping operations.
It also contributes to strengthening the friendship between Vietnam and the U.S., the E.U., and other partners in this field, he added.
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Mr. Stein Ellingsen, head of the foreign lecturer team, highly valued Vietnam’s contribution to U.N. peacekeeping operations. |
Speaking at the opening ceremony of the course, Stein Ellingsen, head of the foreign lecturer team, hoped the course will be a success. He spoke highly of Vietnam for becoming a reliable contributor to U.N. peacekeeping operations, and congratulated the nation on successfully deploying its level-2 field hospitals to South Sudan and soon its first engineering company to Abyei.
Translated by Trung Thanh