Vietnam preparing personnel for higher posts in UN peacekeeping missions
Vietnam needs to prepare personnel to meet the requirements of higher positions in United Nations (UN) peacekeeping missions, and continue to send candidates, especially female staff, to the UN headquarters, Colonel Mac Duc Trong, deputy head of the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations, has said.
Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnam needs to prepare personnel to meet the requirements of higherpositions in United Nations (UN) peacekeeping missions, and continue to sendcandidates, especially female staff, to the UN headquarters, Colonel Mac DucTrong, deputy head of the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations, hassaid.
Talking to the Vietnam News Agency, Trong stressed the needto participate more in UN peacekeeping operations, and deploy tasks in severaltasks such as logistics, liaison and military police, adding that this is along-term goal set out by the department.
Colonel Mac Duc Trong, deputy head of the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations (Photo: VNA)
According to him, participating in UN peacekeepingoperations is a major policy of the Vietnamese Party and State, and also animportant task of the Vietnam People's Army in the new period, contributing torealising the foreign policy of peace, cooperation, development, multilateralisationand diversification of international relations.
Vietnam's engagement in UN peacekeeping operations over thepast seven years has achieved many positive results, and at the same timeopened up many new directions of deployment, becoming a prominent mark in diplomaticdefence, he stated.
The colonel said that recently, for the first time, Vietnam made debut a sapper unit to participate in UN peacekeeping, marking a new developmentstep in expertise and level.
Vietnam's sapper unit No.1 and level-2 field hospital No.4 make their debut (Photo: VNA)
Compared to the level-2 field hospitals Vietnam has deployed before, the sapperunit is larger in number with 184 professional officers and soldiers. In termsof equipment, the unit will deploy about 2,000 tonnes of equipment to the UNInterim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA), including around 150 machines.
In the coming time, the set goal is to successfully deployVietnam's first sapper unit to the UN peacekeeping mission and complete all thetasks assigned by the UN for the humanitarian mission.
Vietnam must continue to keep up the good quality of its level-2field hospitals to maintain the existing reputation among the missions, headded./.
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Vietnamese UN peacekeepers (Photo: VNA) 
Colonel Mac Duc Trong, deputy head of the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations (Photo: VNA) 
Vietnam's sapper unit No.1 and level-2 field hospital No.4 make their debut (Photo: VNA) 
