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Troops for Ethiopia

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, JULY 9 . The Deputy Chief of the Army Staff, J.B.S. Yadava, today bid farewell to men of the 13 Kumaon Battalion who will join the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in Ethiopia-Eritrea (UNMEE). The first batch of 200 men will leave on July 16 and relieve the 15 Sikh Light Infantry Group.

India, a major contributor to U.N. peacekeeping operations, has sent an infantry battalion to Lebanon and a `composite group' to Congo.

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