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PM Dung has made the statement during a reception for Herve Ladsous, UN Under-Secretary-General for peacekeeping operations in Ha Noi on June 10.
He valued the UN’s role in maintaining international peace and security and contributing to resolving conflicts and disputes through peaceful means when the regional and international security has developed changeably with dangers to regional and international peace and stability, including actions and activities in the East Sea that have seriously been threatening peace, stability, security, safety and freedom of navigation and aviation of the world’s busiest route.
Suffering from hurts and losses from resistance wars, Viet Nam always longs for peace and wants to make contributions to the world’s sustainable peace, PM Dung said.
As a UN member, Viet Nam grasps its responsibilities and seriously performs its tasks through joining the UN’s peacekeeping force, he added.
For his part, Ladsous said that the UN values Viet Nam’s participation in the UN’s peacekeeping operations by sending officers to UN missions in South Sudan and Central Africa.
The UN hopes to receiver more Vietnamese officers to other missions, as well as the country’s support to the organization’s peacekeeping mission, Ladsous added.
He lauded Viet Nam’s proposal to launch a level 2 field hospital in 2015 and an engineering team at the end of 2016 to UN missions on par with the country’s capacity, as well as the signing of agreements with the UN on allocating military medical and engineering units to specific missions and sending men to work in peacekeeping bodies at the UN headquarters.
As an experienced diplomat in the region, Ladsoussaid that he understood the complications and seriousness of the East Sea situation and shares Viet Nam’s stance on addressing the issue through peaceful measures in accordance with international law.
By Vien Nhu
