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Article: Fed: Labor to agree to minor military presence in Solomons
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- June 25, 2003
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Fed: Labor to agree to minor military presence in Solomons
CANBERRA, June 25 AAP - Labor would support a government decision
to send Australian
troops to the Solomon Islands but only if it was a minor military
presence, opposition
foreign spokesman Kevin Rudd said today.
He said Labor wanted police, rather than military peacekeepers,
to be sent to the Pacific
island nation to restore law and order.
Mr Rudd said the National Security Committee of Cabinet was meeting
today to discuss
a plan for the dispatch of troops to the Solomon Islands.
The government would not confirm if the meeting was going ahead.
"The Australian Labor Party would have some ...