Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada ordered the Ground Self-Defense Force on Friday to withdraw its engineering troops taking part in a U. N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan by the end of May.
Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada ordered the Ground Self-Defense Force on Friday to withdraw its engineering troops taking part in a U. N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan by the end of May.
Based on the order, the GSDF engineering unit will start withdrawal work in April.
At a cabinet meeting earlier in the day, the Japanese government decided to extend by two months the dispatch period of the unit that was earlier slated to end on March 31 and to send additional aircraft to the strife-torn African country for the unit’s pullout.
