Cabinet proposes to send more troops to Afghanistan

The Czech government wants to send as many as 100 troops to Afghanistan in May to serve under US command. The cabinet drafted a resolution to send the troops at a closed session on April 9, but the news became public when a bill was submitted to parliament for approval on Tuesday. If approved, soldiers from the Southern Moravian special forces unit would be sent to serve under US command as part of the American ‘Enduring Freedom’ operation in the Central Asian state. They would not be in Afghanistan as part of a NATO mission. The mission is expected to cost the Czech Republic somewhere in the region of 210 million CZK (13.4 million USD).