The UN Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, has praised the country’s collaboration with the UN, as nicely as the country’s efforts throughout 2021 because it joined the one hundred member bloc’s missions in 2014.
Lacroix praised Vietnam’s provision of level-2 subject hospitals to South Sudan, including that this is the kind of capability that the UN wants its member international locations to contribute, as the more harmful surroundings in which peacekeepers work necessitates higher safety and medical help.
According to the deputy head of the Peacekeeping Department, Colonel Mac Duc Trong, on Monday, Vietnam recently despatched its sapper unit to participate within the UN’s peacekeeping operations such as logistics, liaison, and military police, as it has been doing for seven years, which resulted in new deployments in addition to diplomatic defence of its personnel.
Astonishing acknowledged that this participation is a significant coverage of the Vietnamese Party and State, as nicely as a key task of the Vietnam People’s Army within the new period, contributing to the realisation of the international policy of peace, cooperation, improvement, multilateralisation, and diversification of worldwide relations.
With 184 expert commanders and troopers, the sapper unit is larger than the earlier level-2 field hospitals Vietnam has deployed. The UN Interim Security Force for Abyei will obtain roughly 2,000 tonnes of kit from the unit, including round 150 machines..