Vietnamese police eager to join UN peacekeeping activities

PSNews – The Peacekeeping Office under the Ministry of Public Security recently held a teleconference with the United Nations (UN) Department of Peace Operations to discuss the participation of the Vietnamese Public Security Forces in UN peacekeeping operations. 
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The event saw the presence of Mr. Ata Yenigun, Chief of the United Nations Police Division's Selection and Recruitment Section; a representative of the Permanent Mission of Vietnam to the UN; and representatives of the Department of Foreign Affairs under Ministry of Public Security.

At the event, Senior Colonel Nguyen Ngoc Tho from the MPS’s Peacekeeping Office stressed that the deployment of public security officers to UN peacekeeping missions is prioritized by the Vietnamese Government and the MPS.

He said that, Vietnam wishes to contribute more actively to UN peacekeeping activities by sending Vietnamese police officers to UN peacekeeping missions.

The Vietnamese MPS also wishes to receive more support from the UN as well as its functional agencies, and hopes that the UN and its agencies will create the most favorable conditions for the Vietnamese MPS to soon send its first police officers to a UN peacekeeping mission in 2021.

Mr. Ata Yenigun, for his part, affirmed that the he will work with functional agencies under the UN to actively support the Vietnamese police to participate in UN peacekeeping operations.

During the event, representatives of the UN’s Department of Peace Operations answered a number of questions from the Vietnamese MPS’s Peacekeeping Office on UN peacekeeping activities. The webinar helped the two sides better understand each other and approach an agreement on the deployment of Vietnamese police officers to UN peacekeeping operations. 

By An Nhien

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