The Japanese government decided Friday to extend missions of the Self-Defense Forces (SDF) in the Arabian Sea and other places under the antiterrorism law to November 19, Kyodo News reported.
The Japanese government decided Friday to extend missions of the Self-Defense Forces (SDF) in the Arabian Sea and other places under the antiterrorism law to November 19, Kyodo News reported.
The Japanese government decided Friday to extend missions of the Self-Defense Forces (SDF) in the Arabian Sea and other places under the antiterrorism law to November 19, Kyodo News reported.
The current six-month mission of the SDF, which began November 20 last year after the special antiterrorism law was enacted October 29, followed the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, the government said.
The SDF's activities, such as supplying fuel on the open seas and transporting materials to US and British vessels, will not be changed, it said.
According to the Defense Agency, Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force vessels have supplied 129,000 kiloliters of fuel worth about4.5 billion yen (about 35.16 million US dollars) to US and British ships from November to mid-May on 75 occasions.
(Xinhua News Agency May 17, 2002)
