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.