UN General Assembly
1992

Law, which put in place domestic arrangements that finally enable Japan to participate in United Nations peace-keeping operations and international humanitarian relief operations. In addition to the financial contributions it has thus far extended, Japan intends to cooperate by sending personnel to the maximum degree allowed within the framework of this new law. In fact, a decision has already been made to send election monitors to the United Nations Angola Verification Mission (UNAVEM II) in Angola to oversee the elections there, and to send military observers, a construction unit and civilian police to the United Nations Transition Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC). The first teams have already been dispatched. Japan also plans to send election monitors to Cambodia for the elections scheduled there next year. Japan believes that the principles and practices of peace-keeping operations upheld by the United Nations for more than 40 years are still both appropriate and valid today and will continue to be so in the future. The idea of "peace-enforcement units", proposed in the Secretary-General's report,