Mustafaj takes part in NATO meeting on participation in Afghanistan mission

TIRANA, Jan. 26 – Albanian Foreign Minister Besnik Mustafaj took part Friday last week at a meeting of foreign ministers of the countries that are part of the NATO’s ISAF operation in Afghanistan. The meeting discussed on the problems and challenges ahead and the contribution from NATO, U.N., EU and World Bank in the mission. Mustafaj expressed his country’s support to the international mission and said that Albania would double the number of troops there.
Albania has a 22-member peacekeeping unit in Afghanistan serving under Turkish command and is also part of a small medical unit to assist NATO’s military personnel and residents of Kabul. Albania, a small, predominantly Muslim country on the Adriatic Sea, has 70 troops in Bosnia and 120 troops in Iraq.