Afghanistan troop contingent to grow
From Times Wire Reports
Poland will send 400 more soldiers to Afghanistan next year, strengthening its commitment to a North Atlantic Treaty Organization-led mission aimed at helping restore order, Poland’s foreign and defense ministers said.
Poland, the biggest ex-communist member of NATO and the European Union, already has about 1,200 troops in Afghanistan. “We had so far the smallest presence in Afghanistan . . . too little for a serious NATO ally,” Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski told TVP3 television.
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