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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on October 14, 2019, 04:28:16 pm

Title: Australia, Fiji to send peacekeeping mission to Middle East
Post by: TomSea on October 14, 2019, 04:28:16 pm

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Australia, Fiji to send peacekeeping mission to Middle East
Lidia Kelly

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia and Fiji will send a joint United Nations peacekeeping mission to a disputed region in the Middle East as soon as next week, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said over the weekend.

“They’re going to be going there next week,” Morrison was cited by Australian media as saying during his second visit to Fiji and his third official meeting with Fijian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama this year. “Our Australians are going over there, training them, supporting them.”

The co-deployment of the troops to a territory on the border area between Israel and Syria is unrelated to “current events in north-eastern Syria,” the Australian defense ministry said in a statement.

Read more at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-fiji-middleeast-idUSKBN1WR02R (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-fiji-middleeast-idUSKBN1WR02R)

I thought that was a bit interesting.