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Japan's ruling party approves plan to extend naval mission
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 18 - 10 - 2004


Japan's ruling party approved a plan to
extend by six months Tokyo's naval mission providing
logistical support to the U.S.-led coalition in
Afghanistan, an official said Thursday.
The extended mission, which involves refueling and
supplying coalition warships in the region, was approved by
the Liberal Democratic Party's policy deliberation
commission and several subgroups, party spokesman Keiji
Konishi said.
Japan launched the operation in November 2001 and has
extended its half-year mandate six times since. The current
authority expires Nov. 1.
The LDP's highest decision-making body was due to
rubber-stamp the plan on Friday, to be followed by approval
from Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Cabinet next
Tuesday.
The non-combat mission by the Japanese navy in the Arabian
Sea was the first in a series of decisions by Koizumi that
have tested the limits of the nation's pacifist
constitution since he took office in April 2001.
Koizumi has also sent about 1,000 Japanese military
personnel to Iraq and surrounding areas for humanitarian
projects.


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