| Author (Person) | Wiesmann, Gerrit |
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| Series Title | Financial Times |
| Series Details | 4.12.09 |
| Publication Date | 04/12/2009 |
| Content Type | News |
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Germany’s parliament voted on the 3 December 2009 to extend for another year a longstanding commitment to keep up to 4,500 soldiers in Afghanistan, even as the government was busy damping hopes it might send more in a US-led troop increase. Guido Westerwelle, the foreign minister, told lawmakers that Afghanistan needed not a military solution but “a political solution backed by military means”, which was why Berlin was “putting an emphasis on civilian measures”. |
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| Countries / Regions | Germany, Southern Asia |
