Polish Government is considering to send additional 600 troops to Afghanistan and have further 200 in the strategic reserve, said Minister of National Defence Bogdan Klich during a joint press conference with the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rados?aw Sikorski on 2nd December. As Minister Bogdan Klich, stressed however, formal decision to send more troops is still ahead of us and will be taken early next year. The final say in this issue will have the President of Poland.
The size of our involvement in Afghanistan after the increase of the number of forces falls within the optimum range of 3200-3800 soldiers to be deployed to operations abroad, as it is stipulated in the strategy of Polish forces’ participation in operations abroad, adopted by the Government in January this year.
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