As part of a working visit to the Central African Republic from April 15 to 16, Senior Lieutenant General Pham The Tung, Member of the Party Central Committee and Deputy Minister of Public Security, along with a delegation from the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security, visited and presented gifts at the YAMBAMBI-MBINGAZO ST CHARLES charity facility in Bangui.
On April 15, a delegation from the Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security (MPS), led by Senior Lieutenant General Pham The Tung—Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Minister of Public Security, and Head of the Steering Committee for Project 05 on Vietnam’s Public Security participation in United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operations—arrived in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR).
The nation will play a more extensive role in future UN peacekeeping operations, including expanding the number of missions conducted by Vietnamese peacekeeping forces through forms of deployment.
Vietnamese peacekeepers of Level 2 Field Hospital No. 3 in South Sudan delivered medical care to save a 50-year-old officer from a stroke on April 11.
The Ministry of National Defence held a ceremony on August 17 to hand over the President's Decision to Lieutenant Colonel Vu Thi Kim Oanh who will take on the UN’s ongoing peacekeeping missions in South Sudan.
First ever international conference on Vietnam’s peacekeeping operations was held in Thach That district, Hanoi, on 23 November, to help the country realize its aspiration to actively engage in peacekeeping, as part of a more active foreign policy agenda it is pursuing.
