Senior Lieutenant General Hoang Xuan Chien presents the President's decision to Lieutenant Colonel Vu Thi Kim Oanh who will join the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, August 17, 2021.

The Defense Ministry of National handed over the President’s decision to Oanh on Tuesday, making her the fifth female officer to join UN peacekeeping operations in individual form.

So far, Vietnam has sent 39 female officers to UN peacekeeping missions, accounting for 16 percent of the total Vietnamese personnel at the mission, much higher than the average ratio of other countries.

Oanh is scheduled to depart in early September this year.

As of August 2021, Vietnam had sent 245 military officers to UN peacekeeping missions in South Sudan, Central Africa, and UN headquarters,