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<p>At the UN General Assembly in September, the Prime Minister offered increased UK
military support to UN peacekeeping activity in Africa. This offer includes episodic
deployment of up to three hundred personnel to conduct key tasks to support the UN
Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). Indicative tasks might include engineering, combat
and advisory support. Planning is in hand now, in consultation with the UN, to determine
the precise requirements and how we may best respond. We expect to deploy the first
troops in mid-2016. We currently have three personnel deployed to UNMISS; two at the
Force Headquarters in the capital, Juba, and one at Malakal, in the north of the country.
UK has no plans to deploy troops to the UN (and African Union) Missions in Sudan.</p>
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