The Diet on Monday gave its final approval for the dispatch of the Self-Defense Forces to Iraq on the strength of the ruling coalition's majority in the House of Councilors.
The Upper House, controlled by the Liberal Democratic Party and New Komeito, also approved the fiscal 2003 supplementary budget.
The Diet will on Tuesday enter deliberations on the fiscal 2004 budget.
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