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Troops accord

Tuesday 01 December 1992 00:02 GMT
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PARIS (Reuter) - France and Germany agreed that a future joint European army corps could be placed under Nato command for peace-keeping operations beyond the borders of the Atlantic alliance.

The accord, reached ahead of a Franco-German summit in Bonn this week, appeared to represent a concession by France, which withdrew from the alliance's military command in 1966.

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