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21/07/2010
PM Seeks 2011 Afghanistan Withdrawal
As more bodies were this week being repatriated to the UK from the killing grounds of Afghinistan, the withdrawal of British troops from the war-torn zone was being discussed as being possible from as early as next year.
PM David Cameron and US president Barack Obama has talked about beginning the pullout of American soldiers from July 2011.
The Prime Minister told the BBC today that the same could be expected of UK forces "based on conditions on the ground".
Mr Cameron was speaking in Washington, where he discussed the Afghan war with President Obama.
A major conference in Afghanistan on Tuesday also backed a plan that would see Afghan forces lead security operations across the country completely by 2014.
Today, the PM will be fully briefed on Afghanistan operations at the Pentagon before travelling to New York for talks with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon on foreign policy issues and preparations for the Summit on the Millennium Development Goals in September.
He will also be meeting senior figures from the US business community to discuss the prospects for increased trade and investment with the UK before attending a dinner hosted by the Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg.
Yesterday, the Prime Minister also met four US senators to discuss allegations surrounding the release of the Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi.
While in Washington, Mr Cameron was also holding in-depth meetings with Vice-President Biden and senior members of Congress to discuss common issues including foreign policy, trade, the economy and the BP oil spill.
Meanwhile, in the war zone, among the latest to die was Staff Sergeant Brett George Linley, of 11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Regiment, The Royal Logistic Corps, who was killed in Afghanistan on Saturday 17 July 2010.
Staff Sergeant Linley, serving with the Counter-IED Task Force in support of Combined Force Nahr-e Saraj (South), was killed in an explosion during a counter-IED operation in the Nahr-e Saraj District of Helmand province.
See: Afganistan Victims' Bodies Flown Home
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PM David Cameron and US president Barack Obama has talked about beginning the pullout of American soldiers from July 2011.
The Prime Minister told the BBC today that the same could be expected of UK forces "based on conditions on the ground".
Mr Cameron was speaking in Washington, where he discussed the Afghan war with President Obama.
A major conference in Afghanistan on Tuesday also backed a plan that would see Afghan forces lead security operations across the country completely by 2014.
Today, the PM will be fully briefed on Afghanistan operations at the Pentagon before travelling to New York for talks with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon on foreign policy issues and preparations for the Summit on the Millennium Development Goals in September.
He will also be meeting senior figures from the US business community to discuss the prospects for increased trade and investment with the UK before attending a dinner hosted by the Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg.
Yesterday, the Prime Minister also met four US senators to discuss allegations surrounding the release of the Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi.
While in Washington, Mr Cameron was also holding in-depth meetings with Vice-President Biden and senior members of Congress to discuss common issues including foreign policy, trade, the economy and the BP oil spill.
Meanwhile, in the war zone, among the latest to die was Staff Sergeant Brett George Linley, of 11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Regiment, The Royal Logistic Corps, who was killed in Afghanistan on Saturday 17 July 2010.
Staff Sergeant Linley, serving with the Counter-IED Task Force in support of Combined Force Nahr-e Saraj (South), was killed in an explosion during a counter-IED operation in the Nahr-e Saraj District of Helmand province.
See: Afganistan Victims' Bodies Flown Home
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