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KABUL - U.S. Marines and Afghan troops, conducting the first offensive since the new American war plan was announced, met little resistance from insurgents Saturday as they worked to disrupt Taliban supply and communications lines in a key valley in... Full Article at Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor
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A meeting of foreign ministers of the NATO-Russia Council is held at the NATO headquarters in Brussels Dec. 4, 2009. Full Article at People's Daily Online
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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (L) listens to Latvian President Valdis Zatlers during a joint press conference on October 8, 2009 in Riga. View Photo »
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the world reposes faith in you ... Let us turn Copenhagen to Hopenhagen.
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Washington -- Under strong pressure from the Obama administration, NATO said Friday that its members would add 7,000 soldiers to the 40,000 non-American allied troops already in Afghanistan. Full Article at Detroit News Online
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BRUSSELS — NATO allies welcomed President Obama's new Afghanistan strategy Friday, as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton received pledges of 7,000 extra troops to back up the U.S. escalation. Full Article at Deseret News
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BRUSSELS — Some two dozen countries will send an estimated 7,000 more troops to Afghanistan next year, an infusion of forces that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday is crucial to turning the tide in the long war. Full Article at Fort Worth Star-Telegram
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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (L) and Latvian President Valdis Zatlers give a joint press conference on October 8, 2009 in Riga. View Photo »
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hopes that the allies will follow suit and provide additional forces, but this will take some time ... NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen is urging the leaders of all countries engaged in Afghanistan to do more.
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KABUL — More than 1,000 British, Afghan and US troops launched a fresh offensive in a key battleground of southern Afghanistan on Friday, after President Barack Obama unveiled a new strategy to end the war. Full Article at World Military Forum
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America's NATO allies have pledged to add 7,000 troops to the U.S. surge in Afghanistan. "At least 25 countries will send more forces to the mission in 2010," NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen was quoted as saying by BBC Online. Full Article at The Post Chronicle
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WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 29: U.S. President Barack Obama (R) speaks as NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (L) looks on in the Oval Office at the White House September 29, 2009 in Washington, DC. Obama and Rasmussen met to discuss new strategy for the war in Afghanistan.
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WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 29: U.S. President Barack Obama (R) shakes hands with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (L) in the Oval Office at the White House September 29, 2009 in Washington, DC. Obama and Rasmussen met to discuss new strategy for the war in Afghanistan.
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WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 28: Former U.S. National Security Advisor Brent Scrowcroft (L) listens to North Atlantic Treaty Organization Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen as he answers questions about the future of NATO and the mission in Afghanistan during a forum at the Atlantic Cou...
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WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 28: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen answers questions about the future of NATO and the mission in Afghanistan during a forum at the Atlantic Council September 28, 2009 in Washington, DC.
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To my mind it is obvious - that if we were to walk away and turn our backs on Afghanistan, al-Qaeda would be back in a flash
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I have absolutely no doubt that if we were to walk away and turn our backs on Afghanistan al-Qaeda would be right back
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It's a bit premature to make final decisions on exact troop numbers but I feel quite confident we will see increased troop contributions to Afghanistan
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In a few weeks, I expect we will decide, in NATO, on the approach, and troop levels needed, to take our mission forward
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It is really one of my priorities to improve the relations between NATO and the EU. We desperately need that
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I fully agreed with the ambassador that the government in Kabul must fight corruption effectively
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We can and should start next year to hand lead responsibility to Afghan forces in a coordinated way through NATO where conditions permit
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We need to train more Afghan soldiers and more Afghan police, so I would expect allies to provide more resources for our training mission in Afghanistan
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We are engaged in an intense process among allies and all ISAF nations on the way forward in Afghanistan
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Saudi Arabia and Oman have showed growing interest in working with NATO
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We have a shared interest in helping countries like Afghanistan and Iraq to stand on their feet again, fostering stability in the Middle East... and preventing countries like Somalia and Sudan from slipping deeper into chaos
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I am pleased that we now have an agreed understanding on how we are going to transition from a NATO security lead to an Afghan lead.
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The only way to ensure that Afghanistan does not become once again a safe haven for terrorism is if it is made strong enough to resist the insurgency as well ... In Afghanistan, you cannot separate counterterrorism from counterinsurgency.
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It does not solve the problems in Afghanistan just to hunt down and kill individual terrorists
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Leaving Afghanistan behind would once again turn the country into a training ground for al-Qaida. The pressure on nuclear-armed Pakistan would be tremendous. Instability would spread throughout central Asia and it would only be a matter of time until we here in Europe would feel the consequences of all ...
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To my mind it is important for Europe that we are talking about rolling out a system within a couple of years that can provide European and North American citizens with a defence against a real and growing missile threat ... I hope that by our next summit in Lisbon next fall we can agree to make missile...
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To my mind it is important for Europe that we are talking about rolling out a system within a couple of years that can provide European and North American citizens with a defence against a real and growing missile threat ... I hope that by our next summit in Lisbon next fall we can agree to make missile...
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The only way to ensure that Afghanistan does not become once again a safe haven for terrorism is if it is made strong enough to resist the insurgency as well ... In Afghanistan, you cannot separate counter-terrorism from counter-insurgency.
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We cannot and we should not be in the lead in Afghanistan for ever ... We will need more training teams and we will need more money.
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Ministers welcomed the fact the new approach puts European missile defense more into a NATO context
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Making Afghanistan strong enough to resist terrorism means more than just a strong army and police force
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There is a support of this counter-insurgency strategy which means that ministers agree that it does not solve the problems of Afghanistan just to hunt down and kill individual terrorists
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In Afghanistan, you cannot separate counterterrorism from counterinsurgency ... It means that the international community has to invest in strengthening Afghan capacity to fight their own fight, to make it impossible for terrorists to flourish once again in Afghanistan.
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