Tuesday, February 20, 2001

Members of the tenth transport unit and others sent to the Golan Heights to take part in the United Nations peacekeeping operation there reported their return to Japan to Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori in a meeting at the Prime Minister's Official Residence. The Prime Minister thanked them for their hard work in a difficult environment and said that he had heard that their peacekeeping activities were highly regarded.

In February 1996, Japan dispatched personnel and the Ground Self-Defense Force Unit to the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) in the Golan Heights in the southern western part of the Syrian Arab Republic. Their primary mission is to provide staff officers to the headquarters and to provide logistics operations, such as transportation.