From: EurasiaDigest (digest@eurasianet.org)
Date: Fri Jan 14 2005 - 12:11:21 EST
KAZAKH DEFENSE MINISTER SAYS NO IRAQ WITHDRAWAL UNDER CONSIDERATION
Defense Minister Colonel General Mukhtar Altynbaev told journalists on 13 January that the issue of withdrawing Kazakhstan's 27 peacekeepers from Iraq "has not been raised yet," Interfax-Kazakhstan reported. The remarks came as the body of Kayrat Kudabaev, who was killed in Iraq on 9 January, was returned home. Altynbaev said that an investigation into Kudabaev's death will be completed, and that preparations are underway to send another group of peacekeepers to Iraq. DK
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