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The majority of French people are opposed to the country's military intervention in Afghanistan and want a withdrawal of French forces, a recent poll has shown.
According to the poll taken by the IFOP by telephone in December 2010, with a sampling of 1856 persons, representative of the French adult population, 62 percent of those questioned oppose the French military presence in Afghanistan while 23 percent support it.
Fifteen percent of those questioned said they had no opinion.
The poll indicates that the longer the conflict lasts in troubled Afghanistan, the less popular it becomes among French people.
The poll confirms a previous IFOP poll in January 2010, which indicated that 80 percent of those questioned opposed the sending of French military reinforcements to Afghanistan to satisfy a public request from the United States, which was then preparing to send new troops.
The French contingent in Afghanistan numbers 3,750 men and women. A total of 52 French soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since the war began in October 2001.
The deadliest attack came in the summer of 2008, when a Taliban ambush in the eastern valley of Uzbin killed 10 French soldiers and wounded 21 others.
Deaths of civilians in NATO and US attacks have raised anti-US sentiment in Afghanistan and the rest of the Islamic world.
It also fueled tensions between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his Western allies.
Meanwhile, the majority of those questioned in IFOP poll (69 percent) disapproved of President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans. About 31 percent supported his schemes."
The majority of French people are opposed to the country's military intervention in Afghanistan and want a withdrawal of French forces, a recent poll has shown.
According to the poll taken by the IFOP by telephone in December 2010, with a sampling of 1856 persons, representative of the French adult population, 62 percent of those questioned oppose the French military presence in Afghanistan while 23 percent support it.
Fifteen percent of those questioned said they had no opinion.
The poll indicates that the longer the conflict lasts in troubled Afghanistan, the less popular it becomes among French people.
The poll confirms a previous IFOP poll in January 2010, which indicated that 80 percent of those questioned opposed the sending of French military reinforcements to Afghanistan to satisfy a public request from the United States, which was then preparing to send new troops.
The French contingent in Afghanistan numbers 3,750 men and women. A total of 52 French soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since the war began in October 2001.
The deadliest attack came in the summer of 2008, when a Taliban ambush in the eastern valley of Uzbin killed 10 French soldiers and wounded 21 others.
Deaths of civilians in NATO and US attacks have raised anti-US sentiment in Afghanistan and the rest of the Islamic world.
It also fueled tensions between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his Western allies.
Meanwhile, the majority of those questioned in IFOP poll (69 percent) disapproved of President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans. About 31 percent supported his schemes."