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Dutch authorities have confirmed that the country will withdraw its 1,350-contingent from Iraq in March next year.
Police and secutiry forces in Iraq will have to guarantee peace in the region alone, the Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende said.
The Netherlands first sent troops to Iraq in August 2003 and won parliamentary approval this summer to extend their stay until March 2005.
Iraq's interim administration wants to hold elections in January despite mounting violence, and the Netherlands has come under increasing US and British pressure to keep its troops there after March.
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