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Mon 02 Feb 2010Dutch to leave Afghanistan after collapse of government
AMSTERDAM – Dutch troops are likely to leave Afghanistan this year as planned, prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende said yesterday, as early polls showed his rivals benefiting from the government’s collapse over the mission.
Mr Balkenende’s fourth cabinet in the last eight years fell apart on Saturday morning after the Labour Party pulled out of government, insisting it could not support a Nato request to extend the Dutch mission past this year.
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