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» Wednesday, October 24, 2007

President Karzai/Afghanistan

Asked what the message to President Karzai would be tomorrow, the PMS said that, in relation to Afghanistan, we had always made clear our long-term commitments and there was no more to say in advance of tomorrow’s meeting; there would be media afterwards.

Put that security would be uppermost on the agenda, it was asked whether we would send three thousand extra troops, which NATO said were needed, the PMS repeated what he had said earlier in the week; troop numbers were kept constantly under review but there were no current plans to send extra troops.

Put that the UN had estimated that an extra battle group was needed and that we had said we would not send another battle group, the PMS said that what we had said was that we kept these issues constantly under review but we had no current plans to send extra troops. If that were to change then obviously we would make an announcement.

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