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Japanese troops asked to get ready for new role as UN peace-keepers
TOKYO. June 25 tAPrime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa told generals and admirals .of Japan's self-defence forces today to get ready for their new overseas role as UN peacekeepers. reports Reuter.
The self-defence forces will be taking on a new role of international contribution through pcacc-keeping activities". Miyazawa told a meeting of about 200 divisional commanders. admirals and air force chiefs.
The Prime Minister told Cambodian head of state Prince Norodom Sihanouk on
Monday he hoped that a Japanese contingent would head for his war-ravaged country soon to help with reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts.
"It is needless to say that the mission, to take part in nations peace-keeping forces is in harmony with our nation's peace principles (as set out) in the constitution." Miyazawa told the top brass and civilian officials assembled at the defence ministry.
Last week. Miyazawa's controversial Peace-Keeping Operations (PKO) bill became law after an epic 20-month parliamentary battle, it allows Japan to send troops abroad on active service for the first time since 1945.
In his address today, the Prime Minister made only an oblique reference to fears over the new law expressed in some Asian countries overrun by Japanese imperial troops during World War Two.
"Japan will never become a military threat to other countries," he said.
During this month’s last stages of the PKO debate In parliament, the socialists and communists adopted desperate tactics to delay enactment of the bill, claiming It violates the constitutional ban on set-
ting International disputes with military force.
Public opinion remains deeply split on the issue. A poll by TTie Daily Mainichl Shimbun released today showed 31 per cent approved the new law. 37 per cent opposed it. and the rest were undecided.
In his address. Miyazawa reminded Japan’s military top brass that, under the terms of the watered-down bill which finally cleared parliament, their peacc-kccping troops must use weapons only to defend themselves.
Defence Minister Sohci Miyashita said it would be an entirely new situation for them.
The mission will not be the same as conventional ones," he told them In an address," moreover, the operational area will be in the territory of foreign countries."
T want you. senior officers, to take this point into consideration with an international mind and be properly ready for whatever situation may arise to complete the mission."
Next week. Miyazawa s government is to send a dozen officers and senior defence ministry civil servants to Cambodia to study possible missions there for Japanese troops.
Yasushi Akashi, head of the United Nations transitional authority in Cambodia, told the Japanese military earlier ^his
week that his organisation needed a Japanese military earlier this week that his organisation needed a battalion of engineers for road construction and other infrastructure projects.
The make-up of Japan’s first PKO unit has not been decided. but parliamentary sources said an engineering battalion of the ground self-defence force (army) could fly to Cambodia on airforce transport planes as early as September.
Navy ships would carry their heavy construction and other equipment.