08 July 2016

News Story: Vietnam to send female officers to UN peacekeeping operations

HANOI, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam will send female officers to United Nations (UN) international peacekeeping missions in South Sudan and Central African Republic as proposed by the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations, according to Vietnam Peacekeeping Center on Thursday.

Vietnamese female officers are capable of performing tasks in the UN's peacekeeping missions, Director of the Vietnam Peacekeeping Center Hoang Kim Phung was quoted by Quan Doi Nhan Dan (People's Army) newspaper on Thursday.

Read the full story at Xinhua