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| German Parliament Extends Military Mandate For Afghan Mission |
| 2019-03-23 |
| [ToloNews] Germany’s parliament has granted a one-year extension of its military mandate for Afghanistan, allowing the country’s first major post-war troop deployment to continue until March 31, 2020. The approval allows Germany’s military, the Bundeswehr, which are mostly deployed in the north of Afghanistan, to keep up to 1,300 soldiers in the country as part of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... ’s Resolute Support mission, providing support and training to Afghan cops. Markus Potzel, Germany’s Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistain in a tweet on Friday made the announcement and said a vast majority in German Parliament voted for an extension of Germany military’s contribution to the Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan. "Up to 1,300 German soldiers will continue to train, assist, advise AFG security forces," he said. The mission has been extended with virtually the same mandate as in past years, though recent suggestions from Washington that the United States may draw down its presence have provoked some uncertainty among NATO allies. Quoted by dpa.international, Fritz Felgentreu, a politician from Germany’s Social Democrats, urged the deployment to continue but warned that if the US were to leave prematurely, the Bundeswehr would be expected to depart as well. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 Credit where due: they’re training the locals to do better, and are at risk of their students turning on them violently at any time. Being on base is not the sinecure it might be elsewhere. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2019-03-23 21:06 |
| #1 ...Won't be allowed to shoot, patrol, or otherwise fight, but they'll be there. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2019-03-23 07:14 |