UK seek Taliban negotiations, says memo

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Published Nov 14 2009 by Observer

UK seek Taliban negotiations, says memo

Prime minister dismisses reports he is planning to talk to the Taliban earlier this year. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Gordon Brown today said he was leading a drive to get Britain's non-US coalition partners to commit another 5,000 troops to the Nato operation in Afghanistan.

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