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Saakashvili: Georgia ready to send more troops to Afghanistan

08 February 2011 [14:25] - TODAY.AZ
Georgia, which is already contributing a 950 fighting unit in Afghanistan, is ready to send more soldiers to ISAF mission, President Saakashvili told the Munich Security Conference on February 6.

"We've offered to send more troops and for the months to come some more troops will follow from Georgia and we are willing to consider increase of our assistance in order to help the Afghan people achieve a sustainable peace and to prevent terrorists from again using that country as a base," he said.

Saakashvili said that Georgia had also offered Afghan President Hamid Karzai that Tbilisi was ready to send experts to help in police and economic reforms, as well as to send artillery instructors.

"For Georgia, a country of just 4.7 millions souls, whose territory is still partly occupied, such an effort underscores our determination to be a provider—and not just a consumer—of international security," he said.

In November, 2010 Georgia offered to send 20 instructors to help train the Afghan forces.


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