Reuters: Canada tells Pakistan fence, don't mine Afghan border

[Eugene]

Canada tells Pakistan fence, don't mine Afghan border
09 Jan 2007 12:40:43 GMT
Source: Reuters

ISLAMABAD, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Despite suffering some of the heaviest casualties
among NATO forces in Afghanistan, Canada on Tuesday opposed a Pakistani
proposal to lay landmines near the Afghan border, but supported fencing to stop
Taliban fighters crossing back and forth.

Foreign Minister Peter MacKay said in Islamabad that Canada was unwilling to
compromise its support for an international protocol to restrain the use of landmines.

He said a better solution lay with fencing, augmented with border patrols, aerial
surveillance and increased use of technology.

"Fencing, I think, is part of that solution, particularly in high traffic areas, and
there have been experiences with fencing that have been very effective," MacKay
told a joint news conference with his Pakistani counterpart.

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Full article: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SP153977.htm

[provis99]

1. yeah right

And a country run by a great humanitarian :sarcasm: like Musharraf is going to listen to the frikin' Canadians. I'll bet as soon as MacKay turned his back he got the Musharraf equivalent of the middle-finger.