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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8760

3 August 2004
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) nato/iraq
NATO training mission to be sent to Iraq in very near future but many issues are deferred till September

Brussels, 02/08/2004 (Agence Europe) - After over a month of difficult negotiations, the twenty-six NATO member nations finally reached an agreement on Friday evening on sending a Training Implementation Mission to Iraq to train Iraqi security forces. The NATO presence on Iraqi soil is of symbolic significance, all the more as it was not certain until a few days before the above decision. The agreement, however, is only partial. The presence in Iraq is only small for now with around forty...

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