The Permanent Mission of Vietnam to the United Nations held a ceremony in New York on May 24 to celebrate the 76th anniversary of the International Day of UN Peacekeepers and 10 years of the country’s participation in UN peacekeeping operations.

To date Vietnam has sent more than 800 officers to three UN peacekeeping missions and the UN Headquarters.

The Vietnam Corps of Engineers opened its first smart camp at a UN mission in Abyei, Africa, on a day that is also important in the country's history - the 70th anniversary of the victory at Dien Bien Phu.

A smart camp built by the Vietnamese engineers who are taking on a UN peacekeeping mission in Abyei between Sudan and South Sudan was inaugurated at Highway base on May 7.

The Ministry of National Defence held a ceremony in Hanoi on April 8 to hand over the President's and the Defence Minister’s decisions to send three officers to the UN peacekeeping missions in the Central African Republic, South Sudan and Abyei.

The Vietnamese Army Corps of Engineers is building a barracks for the Ghana Infantry Battalion in Rumamier, a "hot spot" of insecurity at the UNISFA mission.

The Ministry of National Defence held a ceremony in Hanoi on February 22 to present the President’s decision to send four military officers to the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping missions in the Central African Republic, South Sudan and Abyei area.

On the last days of the Year of the Cat, hundreds of Vietnamese soldiers and officers at peacekeeping missions, from Central African Republic, South Sudan to the UN Mission in New York, were diligently carrying out their mission of peacekeeping.