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A fu
rther 180 Chinese troops headed to the war-torn western African
state of Liberia on Thursday to join peacekeeping operations there,
state media reported.
The members of a transport company will join 60 colleagues who
arrived in December, Xinhua news agency said. A 70-strong advance
engineering team and 35 medical staff left on Tuesday.
China will eventually send 550 peacekeeping troops in all to
Liberia, which installed a transitional government in October to
lead the state until general elections in 2005. President Charles
Taylor fled to Nigeria in August following 14 years of civil
war.
The engineering team, during their one-year mission, will conduct
non-military tasks such as building roads and houses, repairing and
maintaining airports and ensuring water and electricity
supply.
The medical team will serve UN peacekeepers in an eastern city of
Liberia.
China, which is planning gradually to increase its participation in
UN peacekeeping, resumed diplomatic relations in October after more
than a decade with no official ties - Sapa-AFP
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