Indonesia offers peace keepers to Gaza
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Saturday he had sent a letter to the UN regarding the offer.
While urging the UN to put an end to three weeks of violence which has killed over 1,200 people, the president said Indonesia was ready to move its military peace keepers currently on a UN duty at the border area between Lebanon and Israel to Gaza.
“We’ve been urging the UN to immediately impose a cease-fire. Should it happen, we are ready to dispatch our military troops to ensure there will be no more strikes in Gaza. I’m asking for people’s support regarding this matter,” Yudhoyono said in his speech which marked a commemoration of the National Alms Management Body (Baznas)’s eighth anniversary.
A Garuda XXV-A contingent of 210 soldiers is conducting a peace keeping mission in Lebanon under the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).
