Moreover, this second mission could follow in the footsteps of the first. ''The threat today is the return of the Talebans, who are helped by what resembles more and more like a veritable Pashtun (editor's note: the country's main ethnic group) uprising, rather than infiltration by Al-Qa'idah henchmen,'' explains an officer. This is the reason for the urgency in reinforcing the Afghan army, which is not the leading vocation of the special forces. The 200 Special Operations Command [COS] soldiers are under American command for the time being. They were based at Spin Boldak, in the southern part of the country, for a long time. They moved to Jalalabad this summer approximately 500 kilometres further north. Since the situation has continued to deteriorate, they have already lost six men. Sac Longchamp Portefeuilles The withdrawal of these 200 commandos from Afghanistan could be followed by the [withdrawal] in March 2007 of some of the 1,000 French soldiers serving with the ISAF. ''We added 400 reinforcements this summer when we took over responsibility for the Kabul region,'' a colonel explains, ''we could reduce''. Strained flows This reduction in activity on the Afghan theatre falls within a broader reexamination of the French contingent. Today, more than 14,000 soldiers are deployed in foreign operations and Lebanon has pushed the army into a ''red zone'' where the flows become very strained. Where can cutbacks be made? The reduction in manpower started long ago in Bosnia. The renewed tension in Kosovo is not heading in that direction. There is Cote d'Ivoire. Pochette Trousse longchamp Le Pliage Approximately 3,500 men are deployed there within the framework of operation Licorne [Unicorn]. We could come down from three GTIA [Joint Tactical Groups] - in the east, west and Abidjan - to two by redefining the missions, by evolving from the separation of belligerents with the ''zone of trust'' to a UN rapid reaction force. ''The thing is that ultimately Paris does not want to bear responsibility for renewed violence before May 2007,'' the same source confides. The contingent in Lebanon could also be adjusted. Theoretically, France has to supply 2,000 men to UNIFIL 2 [United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon 2]. Plans have been made to send a second motorized (therefore lighter than the first) battalion of approximately 600 men before the end of the year for this. The new chief of staff, General Georgelin, went to southern Lebanon this weekend in order to assess the situation and the real needs. Porte monnaie longchamp Le Pliage France intends to meet its commitments but not to ''waste'' any Blue Helmets. MALGRÉ des semaines de tractations diplomatiques, le président vénézuélien Hugo Chavez n'a pas réussi à convaincre la majorité des 192 pays membres de l'Organisation des Nations unies de choisir son pays comme membre non permanent du Conseil de sécurité contre le candidat des États-Unis, le Guatemala. Hier, ce dernier a obtenu 109 voix, contre 76 au Venezuela. Aucun des deux n'ayant atteint la majorité des deux tiers (128 voix), un nouveau scrutin devait être organisé plus tard dans la soirée.C'est une gifle pour Caracas, car ce vote, en apparence banal, est le résultat d'un affrontement digne de l'époque de la guerre froide, entre la Maison-Blanche et celui qui s'est autoproclamé son principal détracteur, Hugo Chavez. Le Conseil de sécurité est constitué de quinze sièges. Cinq sont occupés par des membres permanents, détenteurs d'un droit de veto - la Chine, les États-Unis, la France, la Grande-Bretagne et la Russie.
The withdrawal of these 200 commandos from Afghanistan could be followed by the [withdrawal] in March 2007 of some of the 1,000 French soldiers serving with the ISAF. ''We added 400 reinforcements this summer when we took over responsibility for the Kabul region,'' a colonel explains, ''we could reduce''. Strained flows This reduction in activity on the Afghan theatre falls within a broader reexamination of the French contingent. Today, more than 14,000 soldiers are deployed in foreign operations and Lebanon has pushed the army into a ''red zone'' where the flows become very strained. Where can cutbacks be made? The reduction in manpower started long ago in Bosnia. The renewed tension in Kosovo is not heading in that direction. There is Cote d'Ivoire. Pochette Trousse longchamp Le Pliage Approximately 3,500 men are deployed there within the framework of operation Licorne [Unicorn]. We could come down from three GTIA [Joint Tactical Groups] - in the east, west and Abidjan - to two by redefining the missions, by evolving from the separation of belligerents with the ''zone of trust'' to a UN rapid reaction force. ''The thing is that ultimately Paris does not want to bear responsibility for renewed violence before May 2007,'' the same source confides. The contingent in Lebanon could also be adjusted. Theoretically, France has to supply 2,000 men to UNIFIL 2 [United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon 2]. Plans have been made to send a second motorized (therefore lighter than the first) battalion of approximately 600 men before the end of the year for this. The new chief of staff, General Georgelin, went to southern Lebanon this weekend in order to assess the situation and the real needs. Porte monnaie longchamp Le Pliage
France intends to meet its commitments but not to ''waste'' any Blue Helmets. MALGRÉ des semaines de tractations diplomatiques, le président vénézuélien Hugo Chavez n'a pas réussi à convaincre la majorité des 192 pays membres de l'Organisation des Nations unies de choisir son pays comme membre non permanent du Conseil de sécurité contre le candidat des États-Unis, le Guatemala. Hier, ce dernier a obtenu 109 voix, contre 76 au Venezuela. Aucun des deux n'ayant atteint la majorité des deux tiers (128 voix), un nouveau scrutin devait être organisé plus tard dans la soirée.C'est une gifle pour Caracas, car ce vote, en apparence banal, est le résultat d'un affrontement digne de l'époque de la guerre froide, entre la Maison-Blanche et celui qui s'est autoproclamé son principal détracteur, Hugo Chavez. Le Conseil de sécurité est constitué de quinze sièges. Cinq sont occupés par des membres permanents, détenteurs d'un droit de veto - la Chine, les États-Unis, la France, la Grande-Bretagne et la Russie.
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