Slovakia to double its mission to Afghanistan

Slovakia's defense minister said Wednesday the government had approved a plan to almost double its contribution to the NATO-led mission in
Afghanistan.
«In 2008, we'll have 111 troops in this mission,»
Frantisek Kasicky told reporters.
Slovakia currently has 57 military engineers as part of
the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in
Afghanistan. They serve in the southern Afghan town of
Kandahar, where they were moved from Kabul at the request
of NATO earlier this year, the Associated Press reported.