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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Germany won't extend mandate to depoly E-3 to Afghanistan
Berlin is unwilling to extend the mandate to deploy four E-3 AWACS to Afghanistan after it expires in mid-December.

Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg said a current overflight dispute with Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan.

However he stressed that if the dispute is resolved, the deployment will go ahead.

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