Two Japanese officers to participate in Sudan peacekeeping mission
September 27, 2008 (TOKYO) — Two Japanese officers will leave for Sudan next October to take part in the United Nations peacekeeping mission operating in southern Sudan.
Following the signing in January 2005 of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement ending more than two decades of war in southern Sudan, the U.N. deployed 10000 peacekeepers from more than 70 countries in southern Sudan and other parts of the country.
The Japanese government agreed on Saturday to send two Ground Self- Defense Force officers to undertake security database management, materials procurement and transportation scheduling at the UNMIS headquarters in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum.
Japan had considered to send engineering peacekeepers to participate in road construction and mine-removing in southern Sudan roads. But the idea was dropped due to the shaky security situation, the government said.
A Japanese assessment team visited Sudan during last summer.
Last June The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon asked Tokyo to participate in U.N. peacekeeping operations in Sudan. Japanese forces participate currently in two UN peacekeeping operations in Syria and Nepal.
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Thonador
Two Japanese officers to participate in Sudan peacekeeping mission
Dear GOSS,
The coming of two Japanese Officers to participate in roads construction seems be to very good idea in the South but don’t complicate things by frightenning them. The shaky security situation you are talking is meaningless. You are the Government and the security is in the hand of Government.Stop telling lies. If you don’t want development shame on you.