VILNIUS: NATO defense ministers were set Friday for a second day
of contentious talks on Afghanistan amid calls led by the United
States and Britain for more frontline combat troops to fight
resurgent Taliban forces.
Ministers stuck to their positions on Thursday
during burden-sharing talks in Afghanistan, a sensitive issue that
threatens cohesion of the 26-nation transatlantic alliance.
BANGKOK: Deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will return to
Thailand from a self-imposed exile before May, the kingdom’s new
foreign minister said Friday.
FRANCE suggested to its European partners in Brussels on Friday that
it should be the pilot state as regards consular protection in Chad.
The EU Council adopted the concept of pilot state on June 18, 2007.
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