Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully has welcomed the handover of security for Bamyan province in Afghanistan to Afghan security forces.
It's part of a transition process in which seven areas are to be handed over to President Hamid Karzai's government this month.
New Zealanders are stationed in Bamyan as part
Govt welcomes Afghan security handover
New Zealand soldier, Brendon Whitmore, on patrol in Kabul Afghanistan in 2009. Photo / NZ Herald
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