Senior Lieutenant General Hoang Xuan Chien and soldiers of Engineering Unit Rotation 2, who will be on mission in Abyei (Photo: Trong Duc/ VNA)

A see-off ceremony for the unit is scheduled to take place in Hanoi on August 8.

Most of the supplies which include equipment, machinery and food will be transported by sea while the remaining 17 tons, mainly food and medicine, by air on a commercial aircraft rented by the UN, said Lt. Col. Pham Van Hao, deputy head of Engineering Unit Rotation 2.

As the main equipment was already delivered to the UN mission in Abyei by Engineering Unit Rotation 1 in 2022, this time, Engineering Unit Rotation 2 will bring mainly replacement materials and spare parts, more than 10 tons, that are not available in the host area or have been used up to ensure the performance of duties.

Hao noted that all unit members show strong determination. They have received methodological training and gained all necessary skills for excellently fulfilling the assigned tasks.

In 2022, Engineering Unit Rotation 1 was deployed to the UN mission in Abyei, the first time Vietnam had sent an engineering team to a UN peacekeeping mission. It also had the biggest number of staff members among the Vietnamese units sent to UN peacekeeping missions. All of its supplies, about 2,000 tons, were transported by sea.