Japan will provide mine detectors, four-wheel-drive vehicles, tents and other items worth 200 million yen to support a U.N. peacekeeping mission planned for southern Sudan, a government source said Saturday.
The government, which has been in the final phase of negotiations with the United Nations over the support, hopes to make the decision formal through Cabinet approval sometime in July.
The items to be provided include 60 mine detectors and 10 four-wheel-drive vehicles, and 30 tents for use by UNMIS members, according to the source.
Japan has decided to provide mine detectors as numerous land mines have been left in southern Sudan as a result of a civil war during the last couple of decades.