43-member GSDF advance team departs for PKO in E. Timor

43-member GSDF advance team departs for PKO in E. Timor

CHITOSE, Japan - An official of the 41-member Ground Self-Defense Force's advance team talks with his family at New Chitose Aiport in Chitose, Hokaido, on March 18 before departing from the airport to East Timor to take part in a U.N. peacekeeping operation. The advance team is expected to arrive in East Timor's capital Dili on March 20, and to join a separate advance team of some 50 GSDF members already at work in East Timor.

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