The change will also relax restrictions on Japan's participation in UN peacekeeping operations, currently restricted to non-combat roles, and in so-called "grey zone" conflicts that have not developed into full-scale war, according to a draft of the proposal released to the media last week.
FOMAC is a multinational African peacekeeping force currently stationed in CAR, but some of its ranks have been infiltrated by Chadian fighters who helped overthrow the CAR president last March as members of the ex-rebel group Séléka.
The peacekeeping force is currently set at 12,000 troops, but peacekeeping officials hope for at least 20,000.
Sixteen U.N. peacekeeping operations are currently deployed worldwide, involving nearly 100,000 troops and police from about 120 countries.
He said no other coalition countries are willing to provide troops for expanding the peacekeeping force, which is currently under joint German and Dutch command.
The Karzai government, United Nations officials, aid groups and a growing number of lawmakers from both parties in Congress have urged the United States to help expand international peacekeeping operations, which are currently limited to Kabul, to the entire country.
France, the former colonial power, will provide about half of the 3,000 troops to the peacekeeping force and is currently in delicate negotiations with other European countries about their supplying the rest.
There are currently 15 UN peacekeeping missions around the world.
The 13,000-member peacekeeping force, the largest one currently under United Nations jurisdiction, has had organizational problems and internal conflicts.
The three most improved states are Haiti, the Ivory Coast and Liberia – all three currently have UN peacekeeping forces present.
