The event was chaired by Senior Lieutenant General Hoang Xuan Chien, Deputy Defense Minister, Head of the Intersectoral Working Group and Head of the MND’s Steering Committee for the Participation in U.N. Peacekeeping Operations, and head of Steering Committee for proposing formulating a law on Vietnam's participation in U.N. peacekeeping operations (steering committee in short).
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Sr. Lt. Gen. Hoang Xuan Chien chairs the conference. |
At the conference, delegates comprehensively evaluated the implementation of as well as pointed out difficulties in actualizing legal documents on participation in U.N. peacekeeping operations. They agreed to continue to study, build, and complete a system of legal documents on this field to meet the requirement of reality and missions in the new situation; compile a dossier requesting the building of the law on Vietnam's participation in U.N. peacekeeping operations to submit to the Government and the National Assembly for consideration as regulated.
Concluding the conference, Gen. Chien hoped that ministries and sectors would pay attention to and support the MND and the steering committee in building the law on Vietnam's participation in U.N. peacekeeping operations to complete Vietnam's legal document system in this field.
He urged the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations (VNDPKO) - the standing agency of the steering committee, to collect delegates' opinions and reports and revise the report on the implementation of regulations on participation in U.N. peacekeeping operations before submitting it to authorized agencies for approval.
The deputy defense minister asked the Department of Legal Affairs to collaborate with specialized agency to instruct the VNDPKO to carry out the compilation of a dossier requesting the building of the law on Vietnam's participation in U.N. peacekeeping operations as regulated.
He asked relevant agencies and units to continue to pay attention to the selection and training of personnel to participate in U.N. peacekeeping operations; gradually study and make recommendations to expand the scale and areas of peacekeeping forces to consistently actualize the foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, multilateralization and diversification of relations and being an active, pro-active, responsible member of the international community, thus raising the prestige and position of Vietnam, the Vietnam People's Army, and the Vietnam People's Public Security Force in the international arena.
Translated by Tran Hoai