The Labour Party has definitely rejected NATO's request that the Netherlands stay in the Afghan province of Uruzgan for another year on a training mission. Labour leader and deputy prime minister Wouter Bos informed the other two government parties, the Christian Democrats and the Christian Union, of this during discussions about Afghanistan.
He said his party would honor its promise to the voters that the last Dutch troops would leave Afghanistan by the end of this year and he asked the cabinet officially to reject NATO's request this coming Friday.
Christian Democrat Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen and Christian Union Defence Minister Eimert van Middelkoop have both expressed willingness to extend the Dutch mission in Uruzgan.
For more: Dutch cabinet faces Afghanistan crisis | Radio Netherlands Worldwide
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