Dutch will leave Afghanistan

DUTCH infantry are expected to leave Afghanistan this year as planned, budding apportion January Peter Balkenende has said. Mr Balkenendes fourth cupboard in the last eight years fell detached on Saturday sunrise after the Labour Party pulled out, insisting it could not await a Nato ask to magnify the Dutch mission past this year.Nato had asked the Netherlands, between the tip ten contributing nations, to see in to the probability of a longer stay. "If zero else will take the place, afterwards it ends," Mr Balkenende told a Dutch stream affairs TV programme.The 2,000-strong Dutch contingent, that has been concerned in complicated fighting, is due to begin withdrawal in Aug and Mr Balkenende bemoaned the stroke on his countrys general standing. "The impulse the Netherlands says as solitary and initial nation we will no longer have activities at the finish of 2010, it will lift questions in alternative countries and this unequivocally heedfulness me."