Hanoi, Sept. 16 -- Vietnam's Engineering Unit Rotation 4 is ready to depart for the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) Mission, following a series of activities held in Hanoi on September 16.

Ahead of deployment, the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations under the Ministry of National Defence organised a tribute ceremony at the Monument to Heroic Martyrs on Bac Son street and paid homage at the Mausoleum of President Ho Chi Minh.

Major General Pham Manh Thang, director of the department, said preparations for Engineer Unit Rotation 4 reflected the agency's proactive role as the standing body advising the Party, State, Government, Central Military Commission and Ministry of National Defence on Vietnam's part...