KABUL, Nov. 22 (Xinhua) -- The visiting Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moller on Saturday announced furthering financial and military support to Afghanistan.

    "We will double the amount of money which goes to the reconstruction and development. We also send more troops to Afghanistan," Moller told reporters here after meeting his Afghan counterpart Rangin Dadfar Spanta.

    However, Moller did not specify the number of troops which will be sent to the war-torn country in January 2009, but added his country's parliament is passing a "new strategy for support of Afghanistan."

    Denmark has contributed 249 million U.S. dollars to the war-battered Afghanistan since 2002.

    Some 780 Danish troops have been serving in Afghanistan mostly in the shape of the civilian-military units of Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) within the framework of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).

    The Danish Foreign Minister also asserted that the royal European state would continue to help Afghanistan in the field of education, health and giving training to Afghan police forces.