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Navy to fight pirates in Somali waters

By Li Xiaokun | China Daily | Updated: 2008-12-19 07:46

Navy to fight pirates in Somali waters

Soldiers from a peacekeeping group wait at a hotel near the Beijing International Airport yesterday pending a call for their flight to Liberia. The 275 members from an engineering battalion, the first group of China's seventh peacekeeping detachment to the African country, left yesterday. The second group, comprising transport and medical personnel, is scheduled to depart on Dec 29. Wu Zhiyi

China will send its navy ships to Somali waters to combat pirates, the Foreign Ministry announced yesterday.

Navy to fight pirates in Somali waters

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