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NO PLANS FOR AUSTRALIA TO SEND TROOPS INTO THE REGION: MINISTER.
CANBERRA, Dec 2 Asia Pulse - Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said today that Australia was not on the threshold of pre-emptively despatching troops into the region.
Mr Downer said Prime Minister John Howard, in media comments yesterday, had done nothing more than reassert a well-worn international principle of self-defence.
That was that if Australia knew citizens were about to be attacked, efforts would be made to stop that attack, he said.
"Hopefully you could do that in cooperation with other countries. If the worst came to the worst you would have to stop it some other way," he said on ABC radio.
"But to draw the conclusion from this that Australia is on the threshold of sending troops aggressively into South-East Asia, obviously that isn't true.
"For political figures in Australia to run around suggesting that, that does do us damage because their exaggerated claims get reported in the countries of the region and then they get run in the media.
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