(VOVworld) - The Vietnam Peacekeeping Center and French Embassy in Vietnam organized a workshop in Hanoi on Wednesday to exchange experiences on the sending of a sapper unit to United Nations peacekeeping missions.

Colonel Hoang Kim Phung, Director of the Center, said it reflected the Party and State’s open foreign policy and active engagement in global security and peace issues. He said Vietnam has prepared to mobilize a military engineering force to participate in UN peace keeping missions: “We hope that French experts will share their experiences in organization and coordination of different forces within the UN framework. This will help us to better prepare our military engineers participation in the UN peace keeping missions following the signing of an agreement on technical assistance in peace keeping between Vietnam and France.”