Germany's defense minister has indicated that Berlin would like to start pulling its troops out of Bosnia now the country has held successful elections, AP reported. Germany currently has 843 troops in the European Union peacekeeping force in Bosnia _ just one of a series of German missions that also include Afghanistan, Kosovo, Congo and, most recently, naval patrols off the Lebanese coast. «It looks like, after the elections that have now taken place, which went very well ... we will want to speak in December about how the exit strategy, in other words the repatriation (of troops), looks in concrete terms,» Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung told ZDF television late Sunday. «A step-by-step plan is part of the view and that way too, we will achieve a reduction,» Jung said.
