Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Tuesday that his government will «adjust» the Danish contingent in Iraq next year as two southern provinces are transferred to Iraqi forces. «We expect there will be an adjustment of our forces» next year, Fogh Rasmussen said, without giving details. Denmark has about 460 troops serving with a British contingent near Basra, in southern Iraq where they are under British command. Fogh Rasmussen spoke at news conference with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who made a brief stopover in the Danish capital on his way to a NATO summit in Latvia. «I am not suggesting that there aren't tremendous challenges down in the south of Iraq,» Blair told reporters. «There is not doubt about that at all.» «On the other hand there has been some real progress down there and the operation we have conducted down there has gone relatively well,» he said.
