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12:01, November 17, 2007 |
The budgetary committee of the German parliament on Friday approved a nearly three-times increase in annual aid to help train police in Afghanistan.
The funding was now raised to 35.7 million euros (about 52million U.S. dollars) for the 2008 budget of the German government compared with 12 million a year earmarked to this end in previous years.
"This is the only way to ensure that Afghan police be able to take the country's security and order into their own hands in the long run," commented German foreign ministry spokesman Martin Jaeger.
Source: Xinhua
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