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147,000 peacekeepers serve in Iraq

21 February 2007 [16:26] - TODAY.AZ
At present over 147,000 peacekeepers from 20 countries of the world are serving in Iraq. Most of them (13,000) are from the United States.

7,100 peacekeepers from England, 2,300 from South Korea, 880 from Poland, 1,400 from Austria are serving in Iraq. At present there are 608 servicemen from Romania, 850 from Georgia, 470 form Denmark, 379 from Salvador, 150 from Azerbaijan, 120 from Albany, 100 from Mongolia, 100 from Slovakia, 60 from Lithuania, 46 from Armenia, 40 from Macedonia, 40 from Estonia, 29 from Kazakhstan and 97 military policemen from Czechia in Iraq.

South Korea and Poland will call back their servicemen from Iraq by the end of this year.

The date of the removal of English servicemen from Iraq has not yet been specified, APA reports.

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