The sending will have to be approved by the government and parliament because the special unit mission will be additional to the missions the parliament approved last autumn when it endorsed the operation of 415 Czech soldiers in Afghanistan, Parkanova said. The mission in question is mainly to involve members of the special forces unit from Prostejov, south Moravia, that has operated in Afghanistan twice already. Parkanova said that the unit that participated in combat operations in Afghanistan several times would serve as part of Operation Enduring Freedom and would not be part of NATO forces. It would have more than 100 soldiers and operate again in very dangerous regions of Afghanistan. Parkanova said the intensive negotiations on the sending of the unit Nato soldier dies in Afghan blast ...
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Afghanistan risks 'failed state' ... were carried out in the past days. The elite Prostejov unit is directly subordinated to the defence minister through the Military intelligence service head. Parkanova said the two sides agreed on how long and in how many rotations the unit would serve in Afghanistan but she did not want to disclose the information before Washington definitively confirmed the mission. According to previous information, the unit would operate either in southern or eastern Afghanistan where fierce battles are being waged. The unit operated within Operation Enduring Freedom in 2004 and 2006. In both missions it performed reconnaissance and information transfer tasks but the Czech soldiers also fought in combat operations. At the end of this year, the Czech army would have more than 500 troops in Afghanistan. Prague has also sent its own Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) to the Logar province.
(Ceske Noviny)
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