Canada to hand over Afghan mission to Eurocorps
PLA Daily 2004-02-06
OTTAWA, Feb. 5 (Xinhuanet) -- The Eurocorps, a five-country European army corps,is expected to take the lead in NATO's Afghan peacekeeping mission later this year, it is reported here Thursday.
Under plans due to be confirmed in the coming days, Eurocorps would replace Canada to run the headquarters of the Kabul-based force. The changeover would likely take place sometime in the summer.
The 60,000-strong Eurocorps, founded in 1992, is made up of troops from Germany, France, Spain, Belgium and Luxembourg.
However, an unspecified number of Canadian soldiers would leave for Afghanistan to join the 5,500-strong International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Kabul. There are almost 2,000 Canadiansin the ISAF force.
NATO is currently seeking to muster more troops for the force to enable it to expand beyond the Afghan capital into provincial cites.
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