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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8166

8 March 2002
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/afghanistan
Union's Special Envoy to Afghanistan pleads for extension of mandate and reinforcement of ISAF troops in Afghanistan

Brussels, 07/03/2002 (Agence Europe) - The Union's Special Envoy to Afghanistan, Ambassador Klaiber, made a plea in Brussels on Thursday for the prolongation and reinforcement in number of the International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) whose mandate expires end-May. According to him, there are two resounding reasons for this: obvious reasons of security, but political reasons too.

At a press conference, the Union's Envoy painted a very dark picture of the security conditions in the...

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