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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4e442114-e344-11dc-803f-0000779fd2ac.html
Japan in talks for a peace mission to Sudan
By David Pilling and Victor Mallet in Tokyo
Published: February 25 2008 02:00 | Last updated: February 25 2008 02:00
Japan is considering stepping up its participation in international peacekeeping operations, including a possible dispatch of personnel to Sudan, Masahiko Koumura, the foreign minister, told the Financial Times.
Mr Koumura, who moved to his present post from the defence ministry, said: "We believe that, compared to Japan's capabilities and strengths as a country, there is more room to make an effort in peacekeeping operations. Sudan is one candidate."
He added that talks were at an early stage and there were other possibilities.
Mr Koumura stressed that Japan, whose constitution bans it from military action except in self-defence, would not send troops to Darfur, but "in relation to Sudan's north-south conflict".
But he said: "As an orientation, or policy direction, we shall strive to step up our contribution."
Japan has just 50 military personnel in peacekeeping operations, mainly in the Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border, according to Hitoshi Tanaka, a former senior diplomat now at the Japan Centre for International Exchange.
This compares with about 10,000 troops sent by Germany, which like Japan has restricted its military activity since the second world war.
"Germany has made a remarkable turnaround in terms of its international contribution," said Mr Tanaka. "Japan needs to be doing the same thing."
Mr Koumura said it was in Japan's national interest to contribute to keeping the world safe. "Japan is an insular country, not blessed with many resources. For us to continue to enjoy prosperity, we need a peaceful and stable world."
Washington has long pressed Tokyo to loosen restrictions on sending its military abroad. Junichiro Koizumi, former prime minister, tested the interpretation of the pacifist constitution by sending 550 military to southern Iraq in December 2003.
Shinzo Abe, whose short-lived administration succeeded Mr Koizumi's, pressed for a more assertive diplomacy, but his vision gained little public support.
Mr Koumura played down the likelihood of resolving a long-running dispute with China over claims to gas resources in the East China Sea. He said it was unlikely that a solution would be found before Hu Jintao, China's president, arrives on a planned visit to Tokyo in April.
"Further political decision on the Chinese side is necessary. If they can do that, we shall also be able to make a more flexible response," he said. "But the last process is the toughest part."
Pressed on whether this could be resolved swiftly, as China's ambassador to Tokyo indicated last month, he said: "I am not necessarily all that optimistic."
On Japan's efforts to fashion an international agreement on a post-Kyoto framework on climate change, Mr Koumura said Tokyo had not ruled out a national cap on carbon emissions.
"But any caps will have to be fair. If we have a cap-and-trade system in which major emitters, like the US, do not participate, that will not be fair," he said. Japan would insist "all major emitting countries", including China and India, participated.
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