Government approves deployment of Czech troops in Afghanistan until 2016

Published January 08, 2015

The Czech defense ministry says the government has approved its plan to keep troops in Afghanistan for at least two more years.

The ministry said in a statement Monday that up to 350 soldiers will be deployed in Afghanistan in 2015 and 2016 as part of a NATO-led force.

Monday's approval comes three months after five Czechs were killed by a suicide bomber in the eastern province of Parwan in what was largest number of Czechs killed in a single attack in a mission abroad.

The deployment is part of a plan of foreign missions for the next two years. The Czechs also pledge to stay in various international forces in the Balkans, Africa and the Sinai Peninsula.

The current center-left government has a majority in Parliament to approve it.

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