UN headquarters set to welcome more senior Vietnamese peacekeepers
VOV.VN - Senior Lieutenant Colonel Truong Anh Tuan, deputy commander of the Training Centre under the Ministry of National Defence’s Vietnam Peacekeeping Department, has been recruited as a military affairs officer at the Office of Military Affairs, according to the UN’s Department of Peace Operations (DPO) in New York.
The State President’s dispatch decision was handed over to Sen. Lieut. Col. Tuan at a ceremony held on June 12 in Hanoi.
Colonel Nguyen Nhu Canh, vice director of the Vietnam Peacekeeping Department, said the appointment makes him the fourth officer of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) and the fifth from the nation to be recruited and work at the UN headquarters.
To gain the new working position, Sen. Lieut. Col. Tuan, alongside an officer from Pakistan, successfully overcame representatives from 193 countries, he said, meaning that this once again showed the high working capacity of VPA officers in the international environment in general and the highly demanding environment at the UN in particular.
In his address, Deputy Minister of National Defence Sen. Lieut. Gen. Hoang Xuan Chien, who is also member of the Party Central Committee, head of the Inter-Sectoral Working Group, and head of the Ministry of National Defence’s Steering Committee for the Participation in UN Peacekeeping Operations, ordered Sen. Lieut. Col. Tuan to promote his sense of responsibility and a spirit of international solidarity to overcome all difficulties and complete all assignments.
For his part, Sen. Lieut. Col. Tuan displayed great resolve to fulfill all tasks assigned by the UN, the Central Military Commission, and the Ministry of National Defence. This was done whilst actively engaging in charity activities and spreading the image of a friendly, humane, and peace-loving Vietnam and the noble qualities of the “Uncle Ho’s soldiers” to international friends and colleagues.
Sen. Lieut. Col. Tuan once served as a liaison officer at the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan from July, 2015, to July, 2016.
The nation has so far sent more than 800 military and public security officers to three UN peacekeeping missions, as well as the UN headquarters in the forms of individuals and units.
