HANOI, May 21 (Xinhua) -- Seven officers from the Vietnam Peacekeeping Center will be dispatched to the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic and South Sudan in 2018.

Deputy Defense Minister Nguyen Chi Vinh presented the Vietnamese President's decision to the officers at a ceremony in Hanoi on Monday, Vietnam News Agency reported.

Two officers will be sent to South Sudan as military observers, and five others to the Central African Republic as one military observer and four staff officers.

The officers are also assigned with the task of working with the UN mission to help with the deployment of Vietnam's level-2 field hospital in South Sudan in late June.

The center needs to continue selecting and training of capable and virtuous officers to work for the UN peacekeeping mission in the following years, Vinh said.

Vietnam has sent 20 officers to work at the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Central African Republic and the UN Mission in South Sudan, including a female officer, after nearly four years of joining the UN peacekeeping operations.