Gordon Brown hopes to agree a timetable for international withdrawal from Afghanistan during talks in the new year, he said in a speech last night.
Making his annual foreign policy speech at the Lord Mayor’s banquet in the City of London, he said that he hoped that UN-based talks in London early next year would set a time frame for handing over the campaign in Afghanistan to local security forces.
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