Hanoi, Aug. 20 -- The Ministry of National Defence on August 20 held a ceremony in Hanoi to present the President's decisions assigning three military officers to serve in United Nations peacekeeping missions in South Sudan and the Abyei area. The ceremony was chaired by Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Hien, member of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and Deputy Minister of National Defence. The three officers include Lieutenant Colonel Trinh Van Thuc, a lecturer at the Military Department of the Military Medical Academy, who will serve as a military observer with the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS); and Major Manh Ngoc Diep, a financial assistant at the Logistics and Technical Division of Signal Brigade 21, Border ...