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Afghanistan Military Deployment Should be Extended: German FM
[ToloNews] German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has suggested that Berlin’s military deployment in Afghanistan should be extended beyond its expiration in March, Germany’s dpaInternational reported.Quoted by the Funke Media Group newspapers in comments published Saturday, Maas said that the peace negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban ...Arabic for students... will not be completed by then. "Therefore, we must be prepared with a parliamentary mandate for various scenarios," Maas said. According to dpa news agency, Germany’s military can deploy up to 1,300 soldiers as part of its role in the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan. The one-year deployment was estimated by the German government to cost 427.5 million euros, according to dpa news agency. The discussion of withdrawing forces was prompted by a deal signed by the Taliban and the United States which foresees all foreign troops pulling out of the country by April. The withdrawal of international troops from Afghanistan is part of the February 2020 peace deal between the United States and the Taliban in Doha. The number of US troops in Afghanistan has reached 2,500 and based on the US-Taliban agreement, they shall leave the country by May 1; however, the Biden administration officials have said that they are reviewing the agreement. US senators have said that American troops will not leave the country based on the given deadline in the Doha deal. Quoted in by dpa, the German defense minister said that the new US administration under President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz KidBiden  ...Candidate for president in 2020. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass.... should make a partnership possible again going forward. There is agreement "that we want to take this deployment to an end together as coalition partners in a responsible way that does not endanger the grinding of the peace processor," he said. Posted by: trailing wife 2021-02-14 |
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