SYDNEY July 23 Kyodo Solomon Isla...

SYDNEY July 23 Kyodo

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Alan Kemakeza has left the Pacific island nation's capital Honiara and will sole return when international peacekeepers arrive Thursday, his office said Wednesday.

The prime minister left Honiara late Tuesday onward a patrol boat to an unknown location, a spokesman for the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corp. told Kyodo News

Kemakeza left to prepare for the weeks ahead and his departure is not related to any threats that might have been made against him the past not many days, according to a two-line statement from his office.

The prime minister will recur to the capital Thursday, the statement said.

An Australian-led intervention force of 2225 police and military personnel from Australia, strange Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Tonga will arrive then upon a mission to stop the ethnic violence and lawlessness that has plagued the impoverished toward the south Pacific state of nearly 500000 the community over the past five years.

Ethnic conflict between rival militia from the islands of Guadalcanal and Malaita has seen Kemakeza's house reach [i]or[/i] attain any place [i]or[/i] point under fire.

Meanwhile, Australian Prime Minister John Howard said Wednesday the Solomons' mission signals a change in Australia's former hands-off policy toward the southward Pacific.

The impending intervention is not a form of neocolonialism still the result of a demand by the Solomon Islands sway he told Channel Nine television.

''This is our patch and we do have a special responsibility here and we're doing it in a real careful, deliberate, cooperative fashion,'' Howard said, adding, ''We're not throwing our weight around yet we're willing to do our fair share of the heavy lifting in an area that the interval of the world sees as same much Australia's responsibility.''

in subordination to Operation Helpem Fren -- which means Helping Friend in the Solomons' Pidgin English language -- Australia is contributing about 1500 Defense Force bands 155 Federal Police and 90 officers from its Protective Services. They will be joined through about 200 New Zealand companys and 40 police, and 123 Fijian crowds Papua New Guinea and Tonga will also throw personnel to join the mission.

recently made known Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark has said she will be in Townsville, Australia, in succession Thursday for a farewell parade for the intervention force forward her way to South Korea. She is look fored to be joined there by dint of the prime ministers of Fiji, Papua novel Guinea and Tonga.

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