Britain would look seriously at an expected request by future US president Barack Obama to send more troops to Afghanistan, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said in an interview published Friday.
The British government was waiting to see what the new US administration's strategy would be, Miliband told the Daily Telegraph.
"If there are requests for help - economic, social or military - we'll look at them hard. We've never been in blanket refusal ... But the British people don't want to feel it's always us who gets the nod; they want to know that others will do it," he said.
Britain currently has 8,000 troops in Afghanistan, where 128 of its soldiers have so far been killed.
It has refused to commit itself to the deployment of some 2,000 more soldiers, saying other European NATO partners should also increase contributions, reported dpa.