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Afghanistan: UN withdraws from Kabul?

Sunday, November 8th, 2009 @ 09:57 UTC

by Adil Nurmakov

Countries:: Afghanistan
Topics:: Humanitarian, War & Conflict
Languages:: English

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Afghanistan: L’ONU se retire-t-elle de Kaboul ?

Sailani says that in response to continuing threats to the foreign staff in Afghanistan, it now appears that a decision has been made to withdraw about six hundred UN international officers from Kabul.

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