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| Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen (C, front) presides over a meeting on Afghan issues during the NATO Summit in Chicago, the United States, May 21, 2012. (Xinhua File Photo/Wang Lei) |
Afghan security transition
NATO reaches agreement on Afghan security transition
CHICAGO, May 21 (Xinhua) -- NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rusmussen said on Monday that the security bloc has reached an agreement on the road forward in Afghanistan, and will lead a training and assistance mission in the country after 2014, when the alliance transfers security responsibility to the Afghan side.
Rasmussen made the announcement to reporters after leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) met in the morning on future commitment to Afghanistan. According to the Chicago Summit Declaration on Afghanistan released by NATO as Rasmussen spoke, after transition of security responsibility is completed at the end of 2014, NATO will have made the shift "from a combat mission to a new training, advising and assistance mission, which will be of a different nature to the current ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) mission." Full story
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