Prime Minister's News Update

Tuesday August 26

The 3rd PKO Dispatchees to Golan Heights
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     Having participated since February 1997 in UNDOF at Golan Heights, Middle East, to keep apart opposing troops, 43 members of Japanese Self Defence Forces (headed by Major Takashi Motomatsu) came home and 12 of them immediately reported to Prime Minister Hashimoto.
     Shaking hands with them each, he appreciated them for PKO activities they accomplished far away from home.

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