Bulgaria to move Iraq contingent to Baghdad

by Staff Writers
Sofia (AFP) May 22, 2008
Bulgaria's 155-strong military contingent in Iraq will be moved to Baghdad from guard duties inside a refugee camp on the border with Iran, the government said Thursday.

The Bulgarian peacekeepers have a parliamentary mandate to remain in Iraq until end-2008.

But following the closure of the Ashraf refugee camp they will be shifted to Baghdad to "guard detainees who are undergoing a programme for social reintegration," the government said in a statement.

The decision has to be approved by parliament to enter into force and the transfer will be accomplished between June 15 and July 10, it added.

Bulgaria's centre-left government withdrew a 360-strong military contingent from Iraq in 2005 after losing 13 soldiers and six civilians in the war-torn country.

But three months later it returned to the US-led coalition, dispatching a 155-strong contingent on a "peacekkeping and humanitation mission."

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