The government plans to allow Self-Defense Forces elements engaged in U.N.-sponsored peacekeeping operations to defend foreign troops also participating in such missions should they come under attack, sources said.
In a bill to revise the law on cooperation in peacekeeping operations, the government plans to relax curbs on weapons use to allow SDP contingents to support foreign peacekeepers who come under attack, but only if the attackers are not government troops of the nation where such missions are taking place.
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