Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. In view of the increasing pressure on President Obama to send more troops to Afghanistan, can the minister say whether there have been any approaches, direct or indirect, from the US or anywhere else, to increase Australia’s troop commitment to Afghanistan? Can the minister give the Senate an assurance that there will not be an increase in the deployment of troops to Afghanistan or that the government is considering increasing civil aid to Afghanistan rather than maintaining our troop presence in that country?