France's Chirac Wants Review Of NATO Afghan Mission
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France wants its NATO partners to set up a "contact group" to review and reorganize the alliance's mission in Afghanistan, President Jacques Chirac said in remarks released on Nov.Comment
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Military commanders are looking for more surveillance and other intelligence gathering systems to help aid the fight in Afghanistan, the top NATO commander said Monday.
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NATO's military mission to Afghanistan is in trouble and has little chance of success unless the alliance commits significantly more resources, said a report issued by the Canadian Senate on Monday.
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The United States urged NATO countries on Wednesday to assume a bigger role in Afghanistan and to come up with a plan to take over all military operations there, possibly as early as next year.
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ISN SECURITY WATCH (13/10/04) - The US government is trying to convince its European partners to do more in Afghanistan and to put NATO in charge of overall responsibility for peacekeeping and reconstruction in the country.
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French General Yves de Kermabon, commander of the NATO-led peacekeeping force here, and the chief of its U.N. administration, Soeren Jessen-Petersen, said security was a paramount concern ahead of the Oct.
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Nato's secretary general calls on Canada to keep soldiers in Afghanistan beyond the current 2009 deadline.
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NOORDWIJK, Netherlands  - Germany and France pledged to send more trainers to bolster the national Afghan army on Wednesday but U.S. calls for major troop increases went largely unanswered at NATO talks.
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France is ready to rejoin NATO&#39;s  military command structure provided European defense  integration moves forward and the U.S.-led alliance reserves  top positions for the French, President Nicolas Sarkozy was  quoted on Monday as saying.
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French President Jacques Chirac dispatched his foreign minister on an urgent mission to the Middle East to secure the release of two journalists kidnapped by Islamic militants in Iraq.
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Canada sends a high-level delegation to Paris to sound out a possible offer of military help in Afghanistan.
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France has raised the possibility of rejoining NATO&#39;s military command after a 40-year absence, signalling what could be one of the biggest foreign policy changes in decades.
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The leaders of France and Australia were both set to meet with Afghan President Hamid Karzai Saturday and visit with their respective country's troops participating in the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, a spokesman for Afghanistan's Foreign Ministry said.
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Several European dailies today focus on the role of international troops in Afghanistan as clashes with the Taleban intensify. Elsewhere, French presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy comes under fire, EU expansion comes under scrutiny and an Austrian daily fears that Muslim schools in Europe could be forced underground.
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French President Jacques Chirac toldFrench Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin on Monday that "all necessary means, in goods, humanitarian aid and medical aid, should be mobilized to meet the needs of the ...
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France regards a European arms embargo on China as outdated and wants it lifted as soon as possible, President Jacques Chirac said in an interview ahead of his visit Friday to China.
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The international community cannot afford to lose the war against extremists in Afghanistan, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Saturday on a quick visit to the insurgency-hit country.