Azerbaijan withdraws 150 soldiers from Iraq
8/12/2008 16:20
Azerbaijan withdrew 150 peacekeepers from Iraq yesterday, according to
news reaching in Moscow from Baku.
The peacekeepers, deployed in Iraq to
protect a reservoir and a hydropower plant, were pulled out under a decision
made by the Azerbaijani parliament on Nov. 11, Russia's Interfax news agency
quoted a statement of the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry as saying.
Azerbaijan
called back all its soldiers from Kosovo in March. It now still has 90
peacekeepers in Afghanistan.
Xinhua
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