China and the United Nations (UN) have co-operated to organise in Beijing a training course for senior police officers from African nations, including Angola. It is in order to help them conduct UN peacekeeping missions, Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua reported.
The course, which started on Monday, aims to pass on the practical experience of China to the African countries participating, the report said. There was a total of 17 trainees from Angola, Djibouti, Kenya, Liberia, Namibia, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
It is the first training course organised jointly by China’s Ministry of Public Security and the UN. China’s President Xi Jinping had said – in a statement made at UN headquarters in September 2015 – that China would help train 2,000 foreign peacekeepers in the following five years, Xinhua reported.
China has dispatched more than 2,400 police peacekeepers of its own to nine regions, including East Timor, since 2000, it added.
