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UN 'is a target for insurgents'

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The UN says it will temporarily relocate 600 of its international foreign staff based in Afghanistan.

The personnel would return to work once security had been boosted at unsecured accommodation used by the UN, it said.

The transfer would not affect work such as aid delivery, as this was done by local Afghan staff, the UN added.

UN special representative Kai Eide spoke to the BBC's Lyse Doucet about the security situation in Afghanistan.

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