The Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations opened a training course for UN staff officers with the support of the US’s Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI) on April 14.
Major General Hoang Kim Phung, Director of the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations, talks to the trainees during the course. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - The Vietnam Department
of Peacekeeping Operations opened a training course for UN staff officers with
the support of the US’s Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI) on April 14.
Director of the Department Maj. Gen. Hoang Kim
Phung said it has organised the course since 2017 but this is the first time
it has been held via both online and in-person forms due to COVID-19.
The course attracts the participation of 16
trainees from 10 units of the Defence Ministry. All have a good professional
background and English skills.
Trainees attending the course (Photo: VNA)
The course provides basic knowledge on UN
military staff for trainees who are about to join UN peacekeeping missions or
participate in management, advisory work, research, and teaching at units
involved in peacekeeping missions inside and outside of the Defence Ministry.
It also helps improve the department’s capacity
for organising international training courses on UN peacekeeping, with the aim of
increasing the quality of the country’s UN peacekeeping training facility.
Leaders of the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations, EU experts and trainees at the opening ceremony of the course. (Photo: VNA)
This is also a chance to intensify the friendship
between Vietnam and the US, the EU, and other partners in UN peacekeeping.
Head of the lecturer delegation Julian Bower hailed Vietnam’s efforts to be the
first country carrying out the GPOI-assisted training course via both online
and in-person forms./.