The first members from Việt Nam’s Engineering Unit Rotation 1 arrived at the UNISFA Mission in Abyei in May. — Photo Courtesy of the Việt Nam Peacekeeping Department HÀ NỘI — A ceremony took place on Sunday to bid farewell to the remaining 156 members of Việt Nam’s Engineering Unit Rotation 1, as they …
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President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc with officers and doctors of Level-2 Field Hospitals Rotations 4 and the Engineering Unit Rotation 1 before they departed for Abyei and South Sudan in April. — VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — To uphold Việt Nam’s peace-loving traditions and implement the Party and State’s policies, in recent years the Vietnam …
Read More »Field hospital team leaves for UN peacekeeping mission
A farewell ceremony was held Tuesday morning at the Air Force Division 271 military airport for the second sortie of the Rotation 4 of Việt Nam’s Level-2 Field Hospital to UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan. VNA/VNS Photo Trọng Đức HÀ NỘI — A send-off ceremony for the 2nd sortie of Rotation 4 …
Read More »Việt Nam’s Engineering Unit conducts field reconnaissance in Abyei
Colonel Mạc Đức Trọng, head of Việt Nam’s Engineering Unit Rotation 1, talks with UN staff at the Abyei Mission during the reconnaissance. — Photo from Việt Nam’s Department of Peacekeeping Operations HÀ NỘI — Soldiers of Việt Nam’s Engineering Unit Rotation 1 participating in peacekeeping mission at the …
Read More »Việt Nam’s equipment, goods to be transported to UNISFA in first military engineering deployment
Vietnamese military engineering unit inspects the equipment and vehicles to be deployed with them to UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA). — VNA/VnExpress News Photo Trọng Đức HÀ NỘI — Nearly 2,000 tonnes of equipment and materiel of Việt Nam’s first military engineering unit participating in the United Nations peacekeeping operations at the …
Read More »Vietnamese “blue beret” doctors save UN peacekeeper lives
Doctors of the L2FH Rotation 3 of Vietnam at UNMISS have performed four surgeries for UN peacekeepers in South Sudan so far this year. — Photo L2FH Rotation 3 of Vietnam at UNMISS HÀ NỘI — Vietnamese “blue beret” doctors at Level-two Field Hospital (L2FH) Rotation 3 at the UN peacekeeping …
Read More »Việt Nam UN peacekeeping officer dies on duty
HÀ NỘI — The Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations will hold a memorial service on January 19 for Lieutenant Colonel Đỗ Anh, who died while on a UN peacekeeping mission. The department said on Monday that the memorial service would take place at the National Funeral Hall, Trần Thánh Tông street, Hà Nội. He will …
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