Vietnam hails UN’s efforts and support in promoting bilateral relations

VOV.VN - Vietnam is always appreciative of the UN’s efforts and support in reinforcing bilateral relations with the country, especially with the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations (VDPO) in joining UN peacekeeping activities.

Maj. Gen. Hoang Kim Phung, VDPO Director made the statement during a meeting with UN Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix who visited the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations (VDPO) under the Ministry of Defence on November 26.

The visit came as part of his trip to Vietnam to co-chair the International Conference on Women with the UN Peacekeeping Operations.
According to the Vietnamese officer, since officially engaging in UN peacekeeping activities in 2014, Vietnam has dispatched more than 500 officers and soldiers of the Vietnam People's Army (VPA) to UN peacekeeping missions.

Regarding group deployment, since Vietnam signed the first agreement with the UN on sending Level-2 Field Hospitals to South Sudan in September 2018, the nation has so far dispatched four hospitals of this kind with 252 medical staff to South Sudan, Phung said. 

In 2022, Vietnam and the UN signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the UN on the deployment of engineering units. The country sent its first engineering unit comprising 184 officers and soldiers to the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA). 

All the officers and soldiers of the VPA becoming involved in UN peacekeeping activities have well fulfilled their tasks, with more than 30% assessed to show excellent performance, Phung noted.

Notably, Vietnam has always maintained a high percentage of female officers at missions, he went on to say.

For his part, Lacroix expressed his impression of successes that Vietnam has achieved in the UN peacekeeping work over the past time, and pledged to enhance his role as a bridge to further augment the UN-Vietnam cooperation, especially in UN peacekeeping.

The UN official greatly valued the VDPO for chairing and coordinating with international partners to successfully organise international training courses on peacekeeping, towards the goal of becoming a regional-class peacekeeping training centre.

Praising Vietnam's great contributions to the implementation of women, peace and security (WPS) agenda, Lacroix said Vietnam has worked hard to carry out commitments adopted at the Seoul UN Peacekeeping Ministerial Meeting in the Republic of Korea last year. 

He expressed his confidence that the peacekeeping cooperation between the UN and Vietnam will become closer and more effective in the time ahead.

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