FRANCE: Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai visits the French National Assembly as part of a visit where he hopes to convince Paris not to accelerate its troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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FRANCE: Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai visits the French National Assembly as part of a visit where he hopes to convince Paris not to accelerate its troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.
- Title: FRANCE: Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai visits the French National Assembly as part of a visit where he hopes to convince Paris not to accelerate its troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.
- Date: 28th January 2012
- Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (JANUARY 27, 2011) (REUTERS- ACCESS ALL) EXTERIORS OF THE FRENCH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SPEAKER BERNARD ACCOYER WALKING DOWN STAIRS AFGHANISTAN PRESIDENT HAMID KARZAI GETTING OUT OF CAR AND BEING GREETED BY ACCOYER KARZAI AND ACCOYER WALKING TO THE BUILDING REPUBLICAN GUARDS KARZAI AND ACCOYER WALKING, SHAKING HANDS AND GOING UP STAIRS, FOLLOWED BY OFFICIALS GUARD DOOR CLOSING
- Embargoed: 12th February 2012 12:00
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- Location: France, France
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- Country: France
- Topics: International Relations,Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA4DC5PQYT3RR3AFNE9287XEB2B
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- Story Text: Afghan President Karzai visited the French National Assembly on Friday (January 27), ahead of his meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in a bid to convince Paris not to accelerate its troop withdrawal and clinch a partnership agreement for post-2014.
Karzai was welcomed by Speaker of the National Assembly, Bernard Accoyer.
French President Sarkozy last week suspended all French training and support operations on the ground and sent his defence minister and armed forces chief to Kabul after four French soldiers were killed by a rogue Afghan soldier.
Paris has 3,600 troops in Afghanistan as part of the 130,000-strong NATO-led force there. French troops mainly patrol Kapisa, a mountainous province near Kabul. One thousand French troops are due to leave by end-2012 and the rest by 2014. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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