A working group from the Ministry of Public Security led by Head of the Steering Committee for Vietnam People's Public Security Forces’ Participation in UN Peacekeeping and Deputy Minister of Public Security, Lieutenant General Luong Tam Quang visited and had a meeting with Vietnamese military and police peacekeepers in South Sudan, on the afternoon of March 24, 2024.
Australian Governor-General David Hurley praised the Vietnamese blue beret force’s contributions and stressed the meaning of the Vietnam-Australia cooperation in the UN's peacekeeping mission when he and President Vo Van Thuong visited the headquarters of the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations in Hanoi on April 4.
The President’s decisions to send seven additional military officers to UN peacekeeping missions were handed over to the officers during a ceremony held by the Ministry of National Defence on February 7.
Local photographer Nguyen A has debuted his photo book that features Vietnamese peacekeepers during their stint as part of the UN mission in South Sudan.
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.
Hidden at the bottom of Thu’s heavy army backpack was a well-wrapped jar of salt. It was a gift from her mother given the last time the two met, and Thu planned to take it to the war-torn South Sudan where she will be one of the first Vietnamese members of the United Nations peacekeeping mission.