Sri Lanka to deploy troops to Lebanon for peace keeping

Sri Lanka Army is considering to deploy peace keeping troops to Lebanon from next August, a media report said today.

The Sri Lankan government had received a request from Lebanon to send soldiers for peace keeping operations, citing the Defence Ministry website Sri Lanka's state-run TV ITN said.

Currently a Sri Lankan contingency of nearly 1,000 soldiers is engaged in peace keeping operations in Haiti under MINUSTAH, the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti.