DHAKA: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has asked Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to send one battalion soldiers and necessary equipments for peacekeeping operation in South Sudan.

The UN chief called the premier over phone on Tuesday evening.

Information Affairs Adviser to the premier Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury made the disclosure to banglanews.

BDST: 2114 HRS, DEC 24, 2013
Edited by: M. Mahbub Alam, Asst Output Editor