Saturday, August 19, 2006

Security: Iceland to send more peacekeepers to Sri Lanka

Iceland's Minister for Foreign Affairs Valgerdur Sverrisdottir, has announced that Icelanders would continue to act as peacekeepers in Sri Lanka and that their numbers would increase from 4-5 to 10.

Norway and Iceland currently head peacekeeping there and were Iceland to pull out, the Ministry believes it would seriously jeopardize safety in the country.