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| Czech Republic: Deputies approve overseas deployments |
| 2007-12-05 |
| Prague- The Czech Chamber of Deputies approved today a plan of the Czech military's foreign missions next year that include a marked reinforcement in Afghanistan to which the opposition Social Democrats (CSSD) objected. The plan is yet to be approved by the Senate that will probably discuss it still this week. Czech soldiers will continue to be deployed in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. In Afghanistan the Czech Republic is to have its own Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in the southern province of Logar as from March. The number of Czechs in Afghanistan is to be raised by more than 100 people, to 415. The number of Czech soldiers in Iraq is to be lowered, on the contrary. The Czechs will remain at the Basra airport. The Czech military will have the strongest contingent, 555 people, in the Balkans the same as this year. The Defence Ministry wants to earrmark about 3.5 percent of its annual budget, or 1.9 billion crowns, for foreign missions next year. |
| Posted by:mrp |
| #1 Fighting above their weight again. I do love the Czechs! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-12-05 14:57 |