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TIRANA, July 28 – Albania announced Tuesday it would send another contingent of 120 soldiers to Afghanistan before elections to be held there next month.
Albania already has an army unit of 30 troops serving in Afghanistan for six months under Turkish command.
The new company will serve in Herat under Italian command on the eve of the Aug. 20 elections, considered very important for that country, according to a statement from the Foreign Ministry. Albania, a small, predominantly Muslim nation on the Adriatic that became a NATO member in April, also has deployed a unit of 69 troops in Bosnia. It has also had small army contingents in Iraq and Chad.(Tirana Times Staff)
