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Macedonia to send 80 more troops to Afghanistan
Skopje (AFP) Dec 29, 2009 Macedonia will an additional 80 soldiers to Afghanistan in February, bringing its total contingent there to 243, the defense ministry said Tuesday. Macedonia already has 163 troops in Afghanistan as part of the NATO-run International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the ministry said in a statement. Macedonia has also been participating in a UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon and an EU mission in Bosnia. The former Yugoslav republic's bid to join NATO was blocked at the April 2008 summit by Greece over a 18-year-old name row that erupted following the break-up of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Greece claims the name Macedonia for its northern province.
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