Nov 6th, 2009 - guardian.co.uk
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Britain "cannot, must not and will not walk away" from Afghanistan, Gordon Brown said today.
The prime minister also gave the Kabul government a stern warning that it had to clean up and reform if it was to continue receiving international help.
In a pre-Remembrance Day speech in London, hastily arranged following numerous British deaths in Afghanistan this week, Brown insisted the Afghan campaign was "prosecuted out of necessity" to protect the UK and wider world from the threat of terrorism.
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