By IANS
Seoul : South Korea’s new government would push for legislation to enable rapid deployment of its forces in UN peacekeeping operations and increase the number of its peacekeeping forces, WAM news agency reported Friday.
The new legislation envisioned by the defence and foreign ministries will allow the government to obtain advance parliamentary approval for its peacekeeping forces’ dispatch plans on a yearly basis.
Under the current law, the government must obtain parliamentary approval, whenever it seeks to send its peacekeeping forces abroad.
The country also aims at increasing the size of its peacekeeping forces to 2,000 by 2012, officials from country’s foreign and defence ministries have said.
South Korea currently deploys about 400 peacekeeping troops in seven countries.