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Vietnam helps maintain sustainable global peace
Vietnam’s peacekeeping force has worked to enhance the country’s position in promoting the implementation of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), including maintaining sustainable peace around the world, Major General Hoang Kim Phung, Director of the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations, has said.
In an interview with the Vietnam News Agency (VNA), Phung highlighted the positive contributions made by Vietnam’s peacekeeping force in UN missions.
“Sending troops to join UN peacekeeping missions in Africa is the Vietnamese army’s contribution to maintaining sustainable peace in the world,” he emphasised, adding that all countries wish to protect their people from non-traditional challenges and enable them to live in safety.
Vietnam’s peacekeeping initiatives have been commended by the UN and international friends, contributing to affirming its position and prestige in the region and the world, he added.
Although Vietnam is quite new to peacekeeping missions, the country has made a positive impression on the international community, the UN, and the missions in South Sudan and the Central Africa Republic, Phung said.
It has signed nine cooperative peacekeeping agreements with nine countries and two others with the UN and the EU, he said, describing the deals as helping promote bilateral defence cooperation with foreign countries.
Some 126 doctors and medical staff and 53 officers of Vietnamese level-2 field hospitals have joined UN peacekeeping forces since 2014, and they have successfully fulfilled their tasks. The Under-Secretary General for Peace Operations and the Military Adviser to the UN Secretary General sent a thank you letter to the Vietnamese Government for its medical contributions to the UN.
Besides carrying out its mission, Vietnam’s peacekeeping force has provided major support to local residents, such as teaching and taking care of kids and instructing people on how to plant vegetables, among other things.
In particular, after the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on the world, making it harder to ensure sufficient medical supplies for hospitals, staff who returned home on furlough were assigned to bring back medicines and medical supplies when they returned, to serve COVID-19 prevention efforts in the host nation.
Phung said the participation in defence foreign affairs is one way for the Vietnamese military to protect the country during peacetime.
Peacekeeping is a priority for Vietnam at the UN Security Council as the country serves in different positions this year. It was UNSC Chair for the second time in April, suggesting 15 open meetings and ten closed meetings to discuss international peace and security.
On April 19, State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc will preside over a high-level open debate on enhancing cooperation between the UN and regional and sub-regional organisations in promoting confidence-building and dialogue in conflict prevention and resolution.
Earlier this month, Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son presided over a ministerial-level open debate on “Mine action and sustaining peace: Stronger partnerships for better delivery”./.
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Vietnam organised a high-level open debate on the role of regional organisations in promoting confidence-building and dialogue in conflict prevention and resolution on April 19 via both in-person and online forms.
Vietnam has presided over the making of, and actively consulted to pass the Statement of the UN Security Council President.
The Statement will affirm the importance of cooperation between the United Nations, its Security Council and regional organisations in conflict prevention and settlement through peaceful measures
The role of regional organisations in promoting trust building and dialogue in conflict prevention is the most important and inclusive theme of the UN Security Council which is the UN’s main body in the prevention of wars and conflicts and maintenance of international peace and security
As a member of many important regional mechanisms, especially ASEAN, Vietnam wants regional organisations to further promote their roles, improve their images and share responsibility with the UN in preventing and solving conflicts in the region, for the stability and prosperity of the region and the world.
when building priorities for the working term as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for 2020-2021, Vietnam determined to promote the role of regional organisations in cooperation with the UN Security Council in particular and the UN in general.
The upcoming high-level open debate will elevate Vietnam’s initiatives to contribute to maintaining international peace and security.
Vietnam wants to affirm its commitment and efforts to address global challenges facing the international community
As a member of ASEAN, Vietnam wants ASEAN to have an increasing voice, position and role in matters directly related to the region as well as enhancing the bloc's presence as a regional organisation at the UN.
Vietnam will contribute to drawing the attention of the international community and the United Nations to cooperation with ASEAN, and strengthening the bloc’s role at international forums and institutions in the coming time.
The open debate will be also an opportunity for leaders of the UN and regional organisations as well as the UN Security Council member states to assert the important role of regional organisations, share experience of each regional organisation in dealing with difficulties and challenges in their respective regions.
Vietnam expects this to be the start of a longer process at the UN Security Council on issues related to regional organisations and their role in promoting trust building and dialogue in conflict prevention, thus contributing to the UN’s joint efforts to maintain peace, security and development in the world
The UN was established with the aim of maintaining international peace and security with efforts to prevent conflicts and assist conflict resolution through peaceful means, creating a sustainable environment for maintaining peace.
The topic of conflict prevention is one of the focuses in the operation of the UNSC while measures to build trust and dialogue are one of the groups of tools for conflict prevention and resolution.
In the context of complicated and unpredictable conflicts in many regions in the world, conflict prevention becomes the focus of policy and strategy in the operation of regional organisations.
Cooperation between the UN and regional organisations has increasingly attracted much attention and discussion from the UNSC.
In 2020, Vietnam successfully completed the first year of its term as a non-permanent member of the UNSC, making outstanding contributions to important activities of the UNSC as well as the United Nations.
Vietnam also shows its great interest in promoting the role of regional organisations and cooperation between ASEAN and regional organisations in maintaining peace, stabilisation, development and conflict prevention.
This high-level open debate demonstrates the motto throughout the term of “Partners for sustainable peace” while conveying the Vietnam's message as a country for peace, dynamism, innovation, and positive integration, thus making a positive contribution to peace, security and development in the world.
It affirms the foreign policy of peace, independence, autonomy, multilateralisation, diversification, and proactive and active integration into the world in a comprehensive, extensive and effective manner.
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