The Czech Republic Thursday sent first three civilian experts on agriculture, construction and geology to Afghanistan as part of its Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in the central Logar province.
The experts are expected to stay in Logar for around one year, while the whole Czech Provincial Reconstruction Team will stay there for three to five years.
The Czech government planned to send another 50 soldiers to Logar, bringing the number of Czech troops in the province to 139.It also mulls to expand the total number of soldiers dispatched to the war-torn Asian country to 415 this year.
After Lithuania and Hungary, the Czech Republic has become the third NATO member with a PRT in Afghanistan.
It also runs a field hospital in Afghanistan's capital city Kabul and a special Czech military police unit will soon engage in combat in the southwestern province of Hilmand.
Source:Xinhua
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