Hanoi hosts planning conference for peacekeeping field training

VOV.VN - The Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations held the final planning conference on March 1 for end-of-term field training under the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting Plus (ADMM Plus) Experts’ Working Group on Peacekeeping Operations Cycle 4 for the 2021 to 2023 period.

The Hanoi meeting was co-chaired by Col. Nguyen Nhu Canh, deputy director of the department and head of the Vietnamese experts’ working group on peacekeeping operations, along with Matsuzawa Tomoko, director for defence cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region at the Japanese Defence Ministry and head of the Japanese experts’ working group.

Participants spent time to discuss specialised and technical issues relating to the final planning and a visit to the venue of the end-of-term field training as part of the ADMM Plus which scheduled to take place in the nation in September.

The co-ordination with Japan to co-chair the ADMM Plus Experts’ Working Group on Peacekeeping Operations Cycle 4 continues to affirm the country’s role, reputation, stature, and contributions to the multilateral co-operation mechanisms on UN peacekeeping operations in the region. In addition, it also helps to enhance ties among the member countries of the ADMM Plus.

Activities during the co-chairmanship have also helped to strengthen defence ties, including in peacekeeping operations, between Vietnam and Japan.

On September 15, 2015, the two countries’ defence ministries signed a memorandum of understanding on co-operation in UN peacekeeping operations, thereby laying the foundation for promoting bilateral collaboration in this regard.

In the Triangular Partnership Programme (TPP), the Far East nation is the main sponsor and the UN Department of Operational Support holds the chair, with the Northeast Asian providing funding for training, equipment, and peacekeeping capacity building for a third party.

Most notably, Japan and Vietnam successfully held two training courses on heavy engineering equipment operation under the TPP in 2019 and 2020.

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