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"We are strongly opposed to our military"s role in operations in Afghanistan," Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said responding to media reports on NATO suggesting Russia contribute personnel to the Afghan campaign.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Sunday he did not rule out the possibility for Russia to join the alliance"s operation in Afghanistan as it shares the bloc"s security concerns.

Rasmussen told a security conference in Munich that Russia would find it hard to fight the spread of drugs produced in Afghanistan, if the southwestern country turned into a refuge for terrorists again.

"A key to the Afghan problem lies in the political rather than military domain," Patrushev said echoing Russian leaders" repeated statements that Moscow would never sent troops into Afghanistan from where Soviet forces pulled out in 1989 after suffering humiliating losses from Islamic insurgents.

The Soviet Union lost some 14,500 military

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