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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Biden asks Europeans for help in Afghanistan


US vice-president Joseph Biden on Tuesday (10 March) renewed pleas for more European involvement in Afghanistan, with EU counterparts relieved he was not insisting so much on troops, but civilian assistance.

"I know the people of Europe, like the people of my country, are tired of war, and they are tired of this war [in Afghanistan]," he said at a press conference following his meeting with Nato ambassadors.

"But we know that it was from the space that joins Afghanistan and Pakistan that the attacks of 9/11 occurred.

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