Vietnamese officer qualifies for post at UN Headquarters
(VOVWORLD) -Senior Lieutenant Colonel Truong Anh Tuan, Deputy Commander of the Training Center under the Ministry of National Defense’s Vietnam Peacekeeping Department has been recruited as a Military Affairs Officer at the Office of Military Affairs, for the UN’s Department of Peace Operations (DPO) in New York.
 Senior Lieutenant Colonel Truong Anh Tuan, Deputy Commander of the Training Centre under the Ministry of National Defence’s Vietnam Peacekeeping Department
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Deputy Minister of Defense Hoang Xuan Chien handed over the President’s decision to Mr. Tuan to take the UN peacekeeping mission.
Senior Lieutenant Colonel Tuan is the fourth officer of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) and the fifth from Vietnam to be recruited to work at the UN headquarters. To get this job, Tuan, together with an officer from Pakistan, successfully surpassed representatives from 193 countries.
Tuan said that this once again showed the high working capability of VPA officers in the international environment in general and the highly demanding environment at the UN in particular.
Vietnam has sent more than 800 military and public security officers to three UN peacekeeping missions and the UN headquarters.