SRI LANKA ARMY, marking one more milestone in the annals of its sixty years of history, is to dispatch a new UN contingent of sixty-one Sri Lanka Army Engineers on earth-moving equipment assignments to Central African Republic and the Chad, a landlocked country in Central Africa Tuesday (25) afternoon.
In response to a UN request, made to the Ministry of Defence (MoD), three Officers and fifty-eight Other Ranks from Sri Lanka Engineers, inclusive of one from Sri Lanka Electrical Mechanical Engineers (SLEME) are to leave for this Central African state for the first time in the history of Sri Lanka Army. A few days ago, another five member aero medical team, increasing the entire contingent to a total of sixty-six, proceeded to this Central African country at UN request.
The latest offer is considered a clear endorsement of the UN’s recognition of the professionalism and commitment of the Sri Lanka Army, and Tuesday’s dispatch occurs at a time when arrangements are being made to send the newest contingent of 749 Army personnel to Haiti shortly to relieve the serving contingent. (Ends)
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