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 BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - Germany has agreed to lead a European Union mission to send hundreds of troops to Congo when the African nation holds a series of landmark elections starting in June, the German Defense Minister said Monday.
After weeks of hesitation, Germany's Defense Minister Franz-Josef Jung said his country planned to lead an EU mission of up to 1,500 members, including troops from France, Spain, Poland and several other nations to support to United Nations peacekeepers stabilizing the country.
"We have together agreed that the command headquarters in Potsdam will take overall responsibility for the mission," Jung told Germany's Hessiche Rundfunk radio. "One can really talk of a European mission here."
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