{"id":7506,"date":"2009-11-30T17:57:29","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T17:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/p=?2"},"modified":"2009-11-30T17:57:29","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T17:57:29","slug":"gordon-brown-sets-date-for-afghanistan-pull-out-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/us\/news\/gordon-brown-sets-date-for-afghanistan-pull-out-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Brown sets date for Afghanistan pull-out summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister Gordon Brown has set a date for a summit which will see leaders thrash out an exit strategy to withdraw British troops from Afghanistan.<br><br>Mr Brown revealed yesterday that soldiers could be withdrawn from the country within a year, saying that Helmand province and others under British control could be handed to Afghan forces.<br><br>The prime minister made the announcement with UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon at the Commonwealth Summit in Trinidad, adding that British troops will be used to train around 50,000 Afghan soldiers.<br><br>&quot;I want the conference to set conditions needed for a district-by-district handover. I believe this can begin in 2010 in a number of districts, including one or two in Helmand itself,&quot; Mr Brown stated.<br><br>Defence secretary Bob Ainsworth has confirmed that an additional 500 soldiers are to be sent to Afghanistan, taking the number of British troops in the country to more than 9,500.<br><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-2867-ID-19486887-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=2867&amp;itemid=19486887\"\/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon Brown wants Helmand and other provinces handed back to the Afghans.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - 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