Part of the agreement called for the complete withdrawal of Pakistani force from Waziristan.
In his race for the state Senate he used technicalities to force the withdrawal of Alice Palmer, the incumbent.
The other options -- withdrawal or augmentation of the force -- could have more negative consequences than good, the report concludes.
Talks in Togo between the government of Sierra Leone and the rebels were deadlocked by rebel demands for the withdrawal of the West African peacekeeping force and the establishment of a government of national unity.
Whether he can meet even that deadline depends partly on what outsiders do to fill the vacuum left by the withdrawal of the Italian-led multinational force.
Moreover, although Zimbabwe is ready to accept a ceasefire, the withdrawal of foreign forces, and a peacekeeping force to monitor the ceasefire and protect Rwanda's border, it believes that this peace conference should not take on the political future of the Congo.
Official sources told Reuters news agency the force would be deployed once the Israeli withdrawal had been confirmed.
His successor is expected to be the last commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan and will oversee the withdrawal of most foreign troops from the country.
Once the withdrawal is over, the secretary-general says the force should be strengthened again with the addition of two mechanised infantry battalions, bringing the total number of peacekeepers to just less than 8, 000.
But their withdrawal in early May exposed the weaknesses of the UN force, which was under-resourced and comprised troops, mainly from sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and South Asia, with little experience of working together or of such operations.
Michael Jackson said Yugoslavia had agreed to a "phased, verifiable and orderly withdrawal from Kosovo" that would allow for a NATO peacekeeping force to enter the province and provide a "secure environment" there.
But even if a force were not in place by the scheduled date the withdrawal of Ugandan troops would still go ahead, he added.
But U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice insists that any truce would have to be part of a wider deal that includes Hezbollah's withdrawal from the Lebanese-Israeli border and the deployment of an international force.
Once the withdrawal has been confirmed, the 4, 500-member United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) is expected to be strengthened to enable it to help restore Beirut's authority over the area.
The U.S. withdrawal from Asia lead to a decline in military spending at sprawling bases like Hickam Air Force Base and Pearl Harbor Naval Base (some respite came in military housing construction throughout the last decade).
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More than 1, 700 of the 4, 200 members of the UN peacekeeping force have now arrived in the border areas to oversee the ceasefire and supervise the withdrawal of Ethiopian troops from Eritrean territory which they have occupied since May this year.
Joseph Dunford took command Sunday of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, where he will oversee the final two years of the war and the withdrawal of nearly all troops.
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Rabin's assumption is that U.S. troops on the Golan will ease the government's domestic task of getting support for the Syrian treaty, but Israeli opinion polls show great public unease with the prospect of an Israeli withdrawal from the Golan -- even if they are replaced with a U.S. or international force.
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He calls for the immediate withdrawal of 40, 000 to 50, 000 troops, and the removal of the entire U.S. force within 10 months.
With more than a dozen countries having pledged troops, the size of the international force will soon reach 5, 000 men, the comfort level Israel has said it wants before full withdrawal.
She also called for an Ethiopian withdrawal from Somalia despite the fact that she knows that the African Union has not been successful in raising a peacekeeping force to deploy to the country that could secure a peace.
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