Mr Brown also pledged to provide textbooks for schoolchildren in the border areas and support 300, 000 girls from poor families attending secondary school.

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Although they accept that military action should be taken against al-Qaida and foreign fighters, they say that that action has to be by the Pakistani army within the territory of Pakistan, and that the military approach toward the Taliban that has been used, off and on for the last two years in the tribal areas of Pakistan that border Afghanistan, has proved an unmitigated disaster.

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The SAA allows for greater links between the EU and Serbia in areas such as trade and on tackling cross-border crime.

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As STRATFOR has explained previously, however, rainfall would have to occur in the upriver areas of southern Venezuela, along the border of Bolivar state and Brazil, for the Guri dam reservoir to rise.

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In the wake of the most recent attack, Britain's Foreign Office changed its advice to tourists heading for Kenya, warning against "all but essential travel to coastal areas within 150km of the Kenya-Somalia border, " and cautioning that beachfront accommodation in the region is particularly vulnerable.

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Tens of thousands of school pupils have been displaced along with their families from areas across Pakistan's tribal belt on the Afghan border where the Taliban have carved sanctuaries for themselves.

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