Germany’s MPs back Lebanon force

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Series Details 20.9.06
Publication Date 20/09/2006
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The German parliament has authorised sending German warships to the eastern Mediterranean as part of a UN peacekeeping mission for Lebanon, September 2006.

The issue of sending German troops to the Middle East - some 60 years after the Nazis wiped out millions of Jews - has divided the country.

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