The Federal Cabinet approved on Wednesday the extension of the foreign deployment of the Bundeswehr in Afghanistan. In the framework of the Nato-led Resolute Support Mission are currently stationed about 1200 German soldiers in the Central Asian country. The decision on the extension of the Mandate now meets the German Bundestag. The Mission focused on training and advising Afghan security forces
The extension of the Mandate comes at a time when, in Afghanistan, there is growing concern that the U.S. could withdraw its troops, before a long-term peace with the Islamists. US President, Donald Trump wants around deduct one-half of the currently stationed in Afghanistan with 14,000 American soldiers. No time for that but plan.
On Tuesday it became known that the Federal government has offered, an Afghanistan peace conference and the radical Islamic Taliban invite. Germany was prepared "at the request of the parties to the conflict to use its good offices to facilitate a peace process," it said in a disclosure to the Federal government to deputies of the Bundestag.
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Hans Month The Federal Cabinet also extended the German participation in the Mission Sea Guardian for the safety of sea-lanes and to combat terrorist activities in the Mediterranean sea, as well as to the missions, Unamid in Sudan, Unmiss in South Sudan. Here, too, the decision on the mandate requests is now up to the Bundestag. (AFP)