The deployment to Liberia is not a peacekeeping mission, but a peace enforcement role, which makes it much more dangerous for the troops involved and difficult for the families they will leave at home. It was correct and honest of the Minister to inform the public some weeks ago that the mission would not last for six months or a year but at least two or three years given that elections are not scheduled to take place in Liberia until 2005. This is not, therefore, a short-term mission.