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From: geode00	1/15/2005 11:03:06 PM
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Coalition of the bribed continues to fall apart Dutch To Keep March Date for Iraq Withdrawal: Minister By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, THE HAGUE Foreign Minister Ben Bot said Jan. 14 the Netherlands would make no change in plans to withdraw its troops stationed in Iraq in mid-March, despite domestic political pressure to maintain Dutch forces in the troubled country. Bot has repeatedly said the government would pull out its 1,350 soldiers in Iraq in March “barring some unforeseen event”. “I foresee no unexpected development,” he said Jan. 14, after the year’s first cabinet meeting in comments quoted by the Dutch news agency ANP. But he conceded that two parties in the center-right majority coalition were pressuring the government to keep troops in Iraq. And he said “we will not close our eyes to the development of the international situation and parliament’s position.” The United States in November urged the Netherlands to reverse its decision to withdraw. Last June, Bot won from parliament an extension to keep Dutch troops in Iraq for another eight months. The Dutch troops have been stationed in southern Iraq, in the sector under British command, and have been involved in training Iraq security troops. A number of the countries in the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq, including Italy, Hungary, Latvia, Poland and Ukraine, have indicated plans to withdraw or reduce their troops in the coming months.

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