Portugal's Superior Council of National Defence (CSDN) decided Wednesday the composition of the countries' participation in the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). The decision reached by the Superior Council of National Defence yesterday evening will be to send a Engineering Company with 140 troops as part of its participation in UN's peacekeeping force in Lebanon. Portugal's Defense Minister Nuno Severiano Teixeira said Wednesday night, during a news conference that the Company, based in Santa Margarida, near Abrantes ,  will be deployed on October 14, integrating this way what the Minister considers UNIFIL' third generation forces. Also at the meeting held by the CSDN the reduction of the Portuguese participation in international peacekeeping missions was approved. The Defense Minister responded by saying that Portugal already has manifested the interest in reducing its participation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Also the reduction of the Portuguese Marines currently in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is scheduled to begin on November. The Portuguese participation in the UNIFIL is calculated in € 9.3 millions. Portugal will spend this year about € 88.4 millions with all its international missions in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East Timor and Kosovo .
Portugal's Superior Council of National Defence (CSDN) decided Wednesday the composition of the countries' participation in the (UNIFIL). The decision reached by the Superior Council of National Defence yesterday evening will be to send a with 140 troops as part of its participation in UN's peacekeeping force in Lebanon. Portugal's Defense Minister said Wednesday night, during a news conference that the Company, based in , near , will be deployed on October 14, integrating this way what the Minister considers UNIFIL' third generation forces. Also at the meeting held by the CSDN the reduction of the Portuguese participation in international peacekeeping missions was approved. The Defense Minister responded by saying that Portugal already has manifested the interest in reducing its participation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Also the reduction of the currently in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is scheduled to begin on November. The Portuguese participation in the UNIFIL is calculated in 9.3 millions. Portugal will spend this year about 88.4 millions with all its international missions in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East Timor , and .
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