UN team in city to talk on troops for Liberia
Staff Correspondent
A three-member team of the United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping Department yesterday arrived in the city to assess the feasibility of sending a Bangladesh military contingent to Liberia.The team members -- Commander Roy Tore Mentzen, Ohyoung Kwon and Veronica A Carter -- will visit the Dhaka, Bogra and Rajendrapur cantonments. The team will also inspect different equipment and witness training activities and preparations of the infantry battalions, engineers unit, logistic unit and medical unit, which are scheduled to join the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia. Bangladesh is preparing a brigade group to take part in the mission in response to the request of the UN, a press release of the Inter-services Public Relations said. This assessment process is the first step to join any UN peacekeeping mission around the globe, the press release added. The delegation team is expected to leave on September 16.
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