Oct 21 05:36 AM US/EasternTOKYO, Oct. 21 (AP) - (Kyodo) — Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso told two Ground Self- Defense Force officers Tuesday to do their best to help create peace in Sudan during their assignment to a U.N. mission in the war-torn African country.
"I hope you work hard" to help create peace, Aso told Maj. Hironobu Tanaka from the Defense Ministry's Ground Staff Office and Maj. Koichi Yamada from the GSDF's Ground Research and Development Command, who will leave Japan later this month to join the U.N. Mission in Sudan.
Tanaka told reporters after meeting with Aso, "I said to the prime minister that we will do our utmost to fulfill our duty representing the Japanese GSDF."
Tanaka and Yamada will engage in logistical and database management at the head office of UNMIS, the third U.N. peacekeeping mission which Japan will have participated in, Tanaka said.
Japan is also taking part in the U.N. Disengagement Observer Force in the Golan Heights to maintain the cease-fire between Israel and Syria, and the U.N. Mission in Nepal to monitor the management of arms and armed personnel under a cease-fire accord between the Nepalese government and Maoist rebels.
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