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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8737

30 June 2004
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/nato/afghanistan
Hamid Karzai calls on NATO to strengthen its presence in all urgency

Istanbul, 29/06/2004 (Agence Europe) - The Afghan president Hamid Karzaï called on NATO to reinforce its presence on the ground well before the general elections in September. On Tuesday morning at the meeting of the 46 members of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council in Istanbul, he stated that "the Afghans need security today and not tomorrow!". He also thanked the members for yesterday's decision and called on them to speed things up. The 26 members of NATO who sit on the EAPC alongside...

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