Vietnam is working on a plan to send a sapper company and asecond-level field hospital to South Sudan in the time ahead as part ofits effort to perform UN peacekeeping missions.

Deputy Chief ofthe General Staff of the Vietnamese People’s Army (VPA) Lt. Gen. Vo VanTuan on July 14 chaired a meeting with the Vietnam Peacekeeping Centreto discuss ways to realise the plan.

Director of the DefenceMinistry’s Foreign Relations Department Major General Vu Chien Thangstressed the need to perfect legal documents related to UN peacekeepingoperations to create a full and sufficient legal basis for the country’sparticipation in the work.

Representatives of the MilitaryMedicine Department under the General Logistics Department and the HighCommand of Engineering said their units have worked out training plansand preparing personnel for the missions.

Lt. Gen. Tuandirected units concerned to actively arrange forces for the missions andfuture ones and perfect infrastructure of the Vietnam PeacekeepingCentre as well.

He also agreed with the centre’s proposals onsending delegations to work with the UN and make field trips inpreparation for the deployment of the sapper company and thesecond-level field hospital in South Sudan.

“Participating inUN peacekeeping forces is an important political task,” Tuan confirmed,saying preparatory works must be thorough but proactive.

Two Vietnamese officers are currently working for the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan as liaison officers.-VNA