VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam is working on a plan to send a sapper unit and a second-level field hospital to south Sudan as part of its effort to perform UN peacekeeping missions.

Defence Minister Phung Quang Thanh and the two first Vietnamese officers who joined the UN peacekeeping mission in south Sudan.

Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnamese People’s Army, Lt. Gen. Vo Van Tuan, on July 14 chaired a meeting with the Vietnam Peacekeeping Centre to discuss ways to realise the plan.

At the meeting, Colonel Hoang Kim Phung, Director of the Vietnam Peacekeeping Center, reported to Tuan on activities of the center and operations of the two first Vietnamese officers who joined the UN peacekeeping mission in south Sudan.

Representatives of the Army Medical Department and the High Command of the Engineers said that they were implementing training activities and personnel to prepare for the plan.

Director of the Defence Ministry’s Foreign Relations Department Major General, Vu Chien Thang, stressed the need to complete legal documents related to UN peacekeeping operations to create a full and sufficient legal basis for the country’s participation in the work.

Representatives of the Military Medicine Department under the General Logistics Department and the High Command of Engineering said their units have worked out training plans and prepared personnel for the missions.

Lt. Gen. Tuan directed units to actively arrange forces for the missions and future ones and complete infrastructure of the Vietnam Peacekeeping Centre as well.

He also agreed with the centre’s proposals on sending delegations to work with the UN and carrying out field trips in preparation for the deployment of the sapper unit and the second-level field hospital in south Sudan.

He said that participating in UN peacekeeping forces was an important political task so preparatory work must be thorough but proactive.

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