Regarding the situation in Ukraine, the government has announced plans to transport relief supplies by SDF aircraft to neighboring countries accepting refugees under the International Peace Cooperation Act, the so-called PKO Cooperation Act.
From the end of this month, we will carry supplies such as blankets about 10 times.
According to the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), more than 4.93 million people have evacuated from Ukraine, where Russia's military invasion continues, to neighboring countries, and it has been pointed out that there is a shortage of daily necessities.
Under these circumstances, at the LDP meeting on the 19th, the government received a request from UNHCR and transported relief supplies by SDF aircraft to neighboring countries accepting refugees as a humanitarian international relief activity based on the so-called PKO Cooperation Law. I have shown a plan to do it.
From the end of this month, we will dispatch C2 transport aircraft of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force about 10 times a week, once a week, and undertake supplies such as blankets stockpiled at facilities in India and UAE = United Arab Emirates, and to Poland and Romania. I am going to carry it.
The implementation plan will be approved at the meeting, and the government will soon make a cabinet decision after the final procedure of the ruling party.
This is the sixth time that SDF aircraft have transported relief supplies as a humanitarian international relief operation under the PKO Cooperation Act since the assistance to refugees from Iraq in 2003.