The Spanish Army is continuously demonstrating that it is an instrument of growing usefulness for Spain's foreign policy. Its implication in peace operations has been important: more than 60,000 army men and women have taken part in these kind of operations and have thus contributed to international peace and security. While I write these words, the Spanish Army is deployed in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and we are bound to send units to the UNIFIL mission in Lebanon. Its support to civil authorities inside the national territory is also relevant.
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