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Thu Apr 3, 2008 8:46am EDT

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BUCHAREST (Reuters) - President Nicolas Sarkozy confirmed at a NATO summit on Thursday that France will send a battalion of troops to the east of Afghanistan as part of efforts to bolster the alliance's peacekeeping force.

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"I have decided to reinforce the French military presence with one battalion deployed in the east region," Sarkozy said, according to the text of a speech to be delivered at the summit in Bucharest, the capital of Romania.

(Reporting by Elizabeth Pineau; Writing by Mark John; Editing by Timothy Heritage)
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