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20:39, February 26, 2008 |
Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura said Tuesday the Japanese government is considering sending Self-Defense Forces (SDF) troops to southern Sudan for peacekeeping mission.
Komura also told reporters Japan is not about to dispatch troops to the Darfur region in western Sudan.
While the minister did not mention details of the expected mission, Japanese media said the SDF's major assignment in Sudan would be demining and building road.
Sending troops into overseas mission remains a sensitive topic in Japan under the country's pacifist Constitution in the post-war era. The Japanese ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the government have begun discussion over new laws aimed at legitimizing the SDF's overseas dispatch at any time without approval of the parliament.
Source: Xinhua
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