The Self-Defense Forces personnel to be dispatched to Iraq will engage in logistic support for security, humanitarian and reconstruction assistance, and disposal of weapons of mass destruction, according to the government's outline of a new bill unveiled Monday.
The government presented the outline to the ruling parties in the afternoon. The bill is to be submitted to the Diet on Friday after receiving Cabinet approval.
Under the bill, the government would for the first time allow the dispatch of SDF personnel to a foreign country without receiving that country's prior consent -- a decision made in light of the fact that no government by the Iraqi people exists at the moment.