The simultaneous decision of the other NATO countries to increase their troops from Afghanistan, deciding upon a schedule according to which the Afghan army would take over progressively and the increase of the international support for development are the three conditions that France is asking to their alleys in order to send new French troops to Afghanistan, declared on Tuesday the French Prime-Minister Fillon. Moreover the Afghan army should be taking over the control on the region of the capital Kabul starting with the next summer, declared the French Prime-Minister for France Inter, referring to the area where most of the 1.600 French soldiers are located, that are part of ISAF troops (International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan) which is under NATO command. The chief of the chamber in Paris refused to mention the number of militaries that the country plans to send to Afghanistan, asserting that the President Nicolas Sarkozy will therefore make an announcement at the summit in Bucharest.
(Source: Rompres) |
