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UK seeking new world order by Afghan war
Press
TV
Monday, Nov 16th, 2009
Despite reports of the UK's plan for peace talks
with the Taliban, Premier Gordon Brown defends Britain's military
involvement in the Afghan war, saying his country must play
a full role in 'changing the world'.
"I believe that Britain can and must play its full part
in changing the world," the British prime minister said
Monday.
"Britain can lead in the construction of a new world order,"
he said in a speech, extracts of which have been released by
Downing Street.
Supporting the UK's military mission in the war-torn country,
Brown said more has been planned in 2009 and "enacted with
greater success" to cripple al-Qaeda than in any year since
2001.
"So I vigorously defend our action in Afghanistan and
Pakistan because al-Qaeda is today the biggest source of threat
to our national security," he noted.
The premier is set to give his annual foreign policy speech
to the London Lord Mayor's banquet at Guildhall on Monday evening.
The US, with cooperation of its European allies including Britain,
invaded Afghanistan in 2001 to allegedly eradicate the Taliban
and arrest militant leaders.
But more than eight years after the so-called war on terrorism
began, a leaked memo has revealed that the British government
has been seeking reconciliation with Taliban's leadership council
based in the Pakistani city of Quetta.
Britain's state television BBC reported on Saturday that the
memo proposed that "reconciled" Taliban should be
removed from the UN sanctions list.
After the beginning of the war, Taliban leader Mullah Omar
and al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden fled to Quetta, where they
received the support of Pakistani security officials.
The eight-year-old war in Afghanistan has so far failed to
kill or arrest the main militant commanders.
Brown, who is tipped to lose a general election to the opposition
Conservatives due by June, is under tense pressure at home as
public support for the war is waning.
According to the latest opinion poll, an increasing majority
of Britons want the country's 9,000 troops out of Afghanistan
within a year.
Some 71 percent of Britons would back a phased withdrawal of
British forces within 12 months, a poll conducted by the Independent
showed on Sunday.
In the latest casualty on Sunday, a British soldier was killed
while on foot patrol in southern Afghanistan, taking the death
toll to 233.
"When the people find they can vote themselves
money, that will herald the end of the republic."
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