12:39 | 22/04/2021
On April 21 morning, at the Tan Son Nhat International Airport, the farewell ceremony was held for 24 Vietnamese soldiers at the Level-2 Field Hospital No. 3 heading to South Sudan to undertake the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission.
08:30 | 10/04/2021
Another Vietnamese officer from the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations has been recruited to work as a training officer at the United Nations Headquarters.
12:13 | 24/03/2021
On the afternoon of March 23, 63 soldiers from the field hospital No. 2 participated in the deployment ceremony before leaving for Bentiu (South Sudan).
10:29 | 18/03/2021
Deputy Minister of Defence, Sen. Lieut. Gen Nguyen Chi Vinh, has expressed a hope that Vietnam will continue to send peacekeeping forces to more areas and plant more Vietnamese flags on the world peacekeeping map.
07:41 | 17/03/2021
Injected with the COVID-19 vaccine before leaving for South Sudan, the peacekeeping force feels more confident to perform their tasks.
22:36 | 12/03/2021
Lieutenant Colonel Tran Duc Huong received the President's decision to go on a peacekeeping mission at the United Nations headquarters (New York) on the morning of March 12.
10:56 | 20/02/2021
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has signed a decision issuing a plan to implement Resolution 130/2020/QH14 of the National Assembly on joining the UN peacekeeping operations.
08:13 | 14/02/2021
On February 12, the UN Group of Friends on peacekeeping held an informal discussion on the Secretary-General's Action for Peacekeeping initiative and the Covid-19 vaccine.
08:59 | 09/02/2021
Representatives of the embassies of Canada, New Zealand, Norway and Switzerland (G4) have affirmed their support for Vietnam’s increasing engagement in peacekeeping missions abroad.
08:50 | 09/01/2021
Vietnam will continue to enhance the efficiency of and expand the areas of engagement in UN peacekeeping operations, said defense officials in a recent conference.
14:39 | 08/01/2021
Major Nguyen Phuc Dong has been accepted as a lecturer at the Australian Peacekeeping Training Center, for a two-year term.
10:18 | 14/12/2020
With Vietnam's success in COVID-19 prevention and control, the UN has asked the country to establish a Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), PANO reported.
18:09 | 03/12/2020
December 2, Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Hoai Trung and Kamal Malhotra, UN Resident Coordinator in Vietnam, co-chaired a seminar on building the Vietnam – UN development cooperation framework in 2022-2026 in Hanoi.
08:09 | 06/11/2020
Vietnam is training personnel and will soon assign police officers to join UN peacekeeping operations.
08:11 | 26/10/2020
Vietnam plans to send more police officers on United Nations peacekeeping missions from 2021 onwards, National Defense Minister General Ngo Xuan Lich said Saturday.
07:01 | 23/10/2020
Viet Nam will send three more military officers to join the United Nations peacekeeping missions in the Central African Republic and South Sudan.
07:43 | 18/10/2020
Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, head of the Vietnamese mission at the United Nations, affirmed Vietnam attaches great importance to the universal goal of decolonisation and the exercise of the legitimate right to self-determination of peoples under colonial and alien dominance.
06:52 | 17/07/2020
A video conference of the ASEAN Peacekeeping Centres Network (APCN) was held by the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations (VDPO) in Hanoi on July 16, focusing on ways to enhance cooperation among the network’s members in COVID-19 response.
07:01 | 11/07/2020
Vietnam and the United Nations have shared experience in peacekeeping activities, especially in combating the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) during online talks on July 10 between Deputy Defence Minister Nguyen Chi Vinh and UN Under-Secretary-General for Operational Support Atul Khare.
14:42 | 10/07/2020
Vietnam is willing to share its experience in preventing and combating the COVID-19 pandemic with South Africa via online conferences as it has done with the medical military forces of some countries recently, Sen. Lieut. Gen. Nguyen Chi Vinh, Deputy Minister of National Defence, told his South African counterpart Thabang Makwetla.
