Japanese Fleet to waters off Somalia to send anti-piracy third (Figure)

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Japanese Fleet to waters off Somalia to send anti-piracy third (Figure)

Date:2011-09-01Author:adminCategory:International militaryComment:0

Data for: July 6, Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan Maritime Self Defense Force Yokosuka base, the SDF Soldiers lined up watched “Spring Rain” destroyer went to Somalia to combat piracy departure tasks.

Xinhua Tokyo October 13 (Reporter Liu Chan) 13, the Japanese government sent to the waters near Somalia, the third installment of Self-Defense Force fleet, replacing the second batch of anti-piracy fleet to continue to perform the task.

the dispatch of the MSDF fleet to “high waves” and “Sea Fog” destroyer, ship a total of about 410 people. The morning the two ships from Japan starting base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, is expected to arrive in Somali waters in early November to take over in July this year to send the second batch of the fleet.

handsome Kitazawa Japan’s defense minister in the morning at a press conference that the SDF to combat piracy in Somali waters, where the action of the inhibitory effect of piracy played a new Democratic administration in power will continue this task.

rampant piracy in Somalia waters, by the end of the UN Security Council Resolution No. 1851, authorizes the national and international organizations to send troops to the Somali waters to combat piracy.

the Japanese government in March this year the first two to the waters off Somalia to send a destroyer, in July and sent a second batch of replacement fleet. Government of Japan in May this year respectively, and the waters off Somalia earlier this month sent two batches of P-3C patrol aircraft units, early warning surveillance to combat piracy.

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