Original report from Washington
05 October 2009
The Royal Cambodian Armed Forces will send 40 peacekeepers to the central African country of Chad for a one-year tour of duty, starting this month or November, a senior military official told VOA Khmer.
The peacekeeping tour coincides with Cambodian plans to hold a multi-national peacekeeping exercise, with US support, next year.
“We don’t know the specific day of their departure yet, because we are now processing their plane tickets, but they will leave soon,” Chhum Socheat, a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense, said. “Now we are dealing with the finances, because it’s the UN’s budget.”
Cambodia has sent deminers to Sudan four times so far, totaling 495 soldiers, since signing an agreement with the UN in 2006, he said.
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