Viet Nam dispatches three more officers to UN peacekeeping missions

The officers will replace their predecessors at the missions. Among them, one will serve as a military observer at the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), another as a military observer at the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), and the only female as a logistics staff officer at the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA).

Addressing the event, Deputy Minister of National Defense Hoang Xuan Chien asked the three officers to quickly grasp the situation in their respective areas, properly perform their assigned tasks, and improve their situation analysis and forecasting capacity.

They were also required to strictly follow the foreign policy of the Party, State, regulations of the Viet Nam People's Army and the UN as well as laws of the host countries.

To date, Viet Nam has sent 799 officers, in both the forms of individual and unit, to UN peacekeeping operations at the three missions and the UN headquarters. They consist of 792 military officers and seven policemen.

Viet Nam ranks 45th out of the 120 countries sending military soldiers and policemen to serve the mission.

Since the Southeast Asian nation sent the first personnel to the UN peacekeeping mission in June 2014, its participation in the UN mission has been highly appreciated by the UN and international partners.

Vietnamese peacekeepers' efforts and creativeness in fulfilling their duties, taking care of the life, safety and health of the local people have contributed to consolidating and strengthening the cohesion and trust between them and the UN peacekeeping mission.

In addition, Vietnamese peacekeepers have spread the image of a peace-loving Viet Nam and its readiness to contribute to global peace, security, and development.

Viet Nam targets to raise the rate of female officers in the country's peacekeeping force to 20 percent by 2025./.