BRUSSELS (AP):
President Barack Obama is asking European members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) to contribute up to 10,000 additional troops to the international force in Afgha-nistan, officials with the military alliance said yesterday.
A diplomat from a European nation said that the troop figure was included in an official NATO document, compiled on the basis of information received from Washington before Obama's planned announcement late yesterday of new United States (US) troop deployments.
Paris was being asked to provide 1,500 troops, said the official, who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter. Apart from the 30,000 additional troops that Obama is expected to send to Afghanistan, the French total would be the single largest new contribution to the expanded NATO-led force, the official said.
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