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| Herat could be handed to Afghans by 2011: Italy | |
| 2010-10-17 | |
| ROME - The Afghan city of Herat could be under Afghan control by the end of 2011, Italian Defence Minister Ignazio La Russa said on Saturday after talks with US General David Petraeus, Ansa news agency reported. ‘I think that by the end of 2011 several districts in the western zone could be handed over. Herat, for example, is already a zone that could be ready,’ La Russa said at the meeting in an air force base in Milan in northern Italy. ‘Our objective is to give back the territory to the Afghan government and army so that they can continue the action against terrorism and launch a process of normalisation of that territory,’ La Russa said.
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| Posted by:Steve White |