Friday, 27 January 2012Afghan President Hamid Karzai is scheduled to meet with Nicolas Sarkozy just days after
the French president threatened to pull troops out of Afghanistan.
Sarkozy made the threat after the killing of four French servicemen by an Afghan soldier this week.
Karzai is touring Europe, stopping first in Italy on January 26 to meet with Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti.
Monti pledged "Italy will not abandon Afghanistan" and signed long-term agreements with Karzai on political, security, and economic cooperation.
Also on January 26, Germany's parliament voted to extend the mandate for German forces in Afghanistan by one year but also approved cutting the number of soldiers in Afghanistan from the current 5,350 to 4,900 as of February 1. |
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