Vietnam deploys 12 more officers for UN peacekeeping operations

  • Photo: Senior Lieutenant General Hoang Xuan Chien, Deputy Minister of National Defence assigns duties to officers to South Sudan and the Central African Republic to work for the United Nations peacekeeping missions. Photo: Hồng Pha
    Photo: Senior Lieutenant General Hoang Xuan Chien, Deputy Minister of National Defence assigns duties to officers to South Sudan and the Central African Republic to work for the United Nations peacekeeping missions. Photo: Hồng Pha
  • Photo: Officers are assigned to South Sudan and the Central African Republic to work for the United Nations peacekeeping missions. Photo: Hồng Pha
    Photo: Officers are assigned to South Sudan and the Central African Republic to work for the United Nations peacekeeping missions. Photo: Hồng Pha
  • Photo: Officers are assigned to South Sudan and the Central African Republic to work for the United Nations peacekeeping missions. Photo: Hồng Pha
    Photo: Officers are assigned to South Sudan and the Central African Republic to work for the United Nations peacekeeping missions. Photo: Hồng Pha
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) on November 22 presented the President’s decisions to assign 12 officers, including two females, to South Sudan and the Central African Republic to work for the United Nations peacekeeping missions there. Vietnam has so far sent 41 female soldiers to work at the UN peacekeeping missions, accounting for nearly 16 percent of the total Vietnamese peacekeeping personnel, much higher than the average ratio of other countries. Photo: Hồng Pha

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