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WASHINGTON -- On a seven-hour trip from Kabul to a NATO meeting in Brussels last week, the two men in Kabul most responsible for American policy in Afghanistan exchanged few words, according to administration officials, holing up in separate... Full Article at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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WASHINGTON - President Obama praised Turkey yesterday for its “outstanding’’ contributions in Afghanistan, but he was unable to persuade the Turkish prime minister to immediately support sanctions against Iran. Full Article at Boston Globe
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NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (L) speaks as Latvia's President Valdis Zatlers listens during a news conference in Riga October 8, 2009. View Photo »
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The Taliban will eventually come down from the hills, probably in dribs and drabs, when they’ve been sufficiently pummeled by the combined Afghan National Army and NATO forces, seen their base among the Afghan people undermined by improved governance, and had their sanctuaries in Pakistan squeezed from ...
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KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Afghanistan on Tuesday, a week after President Barack Obama announced he was sending 30,000 additional troops to the central Asian nation. Full Article at CNN
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WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - New details are emerging about President Barack Obama's plan to increase the size of the force in Afghanistan, including on the number of U.S. troops, the timetable for withdrawal and the contribution of NATO allies. Full Article at Reuters Alert Net
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* Critics to question McChrystal about troop surge * Eikenberry to be pushed on concerns about Afghan gov't * Gates, in Kabul, will press Karzai on "honest" cabinet WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - The top U.S. military commander and top U.S. diplomat... Full Article at Reuters Alert Net
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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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As NATO allies, we are bound to help each other defend our territories ... More broadly, I think it is important for us to have a consistent position with respect to terrorism wherever it takes place.
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US Defence Secretary Robert Gates flew into Kabul on Tuesday for talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and commanders about Washington's new strategy to send 30,000 extra troops to fight the Taliban. Full Article at The Age
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CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — The nation's highest-ranking military officer told soldiers and Marines on Monday that the insurgency in Afghanistan has grown in the last three years and he expects casualties to rise next year as additional U.S. troops pour into... Full Article at Huffington Post
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Admiral James Stavridis, NATO�s recently appointed Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), delivers an address on �NATO: A bridge to the Future� at the Royal United Services Institute, in London, on October 2, 2009.
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U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, left, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, meets British Prime Minister Gordon Brown at 10 Downing Street, in London, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009.
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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 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) looks on as NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (L) speaks to the media in the Oval Office at the White House September 29, 2009 in Washington, DC.
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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) 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) 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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Nuclear forces based in Europe and committed to NATO provide an essential political and military link between the European and the North American members of the Alliance. The Alliance will therefore maintain adequate nuclear forces in Europe.
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Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the NATO secretary general, announced Friday that the alliance had agreed to contribute a further 7,000 ‘new forces’ to the coalition there following Washington’s decision to commit some 30,000 American reinforcements
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There should be no doubt in Bosnia Herzegovina: we want to see you in the MAP, we want to see you in NATO. We understand the importance for the country.
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So they don't want us to surge or leave, but they also don't want to do more to make America and NATO policy in Afghanistan more likely of any sort of success
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Australia is our largest non-NATO troop contributor in Afghanistan
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I want to focus on the eight years of occupation by the United States and NATO countries
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They will become NATO members when they meet the standards, and if they so desire ... We will be discussing progress in reform, which NATO will continue to support.
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They will become NATO members when they meet the standards, and if they so desire ... We will be discussing progress in reform, which NATO will continue to support.
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And finally, together with the United Nations, we will forge a new contact group for Afghanistan and Pakistan that brings together all who should have a stake in the security of the region - our NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization] allies and other partners, but also the Central Asian states, the G...
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NATO allies see the only recipe for lasting security and stability in the Balkans to be Euro-Atlantic integration for all the countries ... It's not a question of if, it's a question of when and it's a question of how.
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At the same time, building an undivided Europe means more than keeping NATO’s door open. It means strengthening our ties with those Partner countries who do not wish to be members of NATO. And it also means building a new relationship with Russia.
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Canada – blocked the approval of all documents which were supposed to be discussed at the meeting of foreign ministers of Russia and NATO members on December 4
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There have been differences among the NATO allies, not just between the U.S. and the Europeans or between the U.S. and Canada ... There have been differences in approaches to training Afghan security forces and in the way we have structured and operated our respective [provincial reconstruction teams].
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Russia is ready to harmonize relations with the United States and other Western partners, including constructive cooperation with NATO in solving common tasks.
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We now have the text of a draft resolution for Russia-NATO Council foreign ministers on this issue [joint threat assessment], which sets out the beginnings of such work. If this works out, it will be a breakthrough decision
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On the one hand, we are cooperating with NATO on Afghanistan, and on the other, we toughly counter any policy to militarize Georgia and condone the Saakashvili regime
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Some countries may decide to speak tomorrow at the NATO ministerial, others will work it through the force-generation conference on Dec. 7, and others have announced already they are going to work toward the Jan. 28 date for the London conference
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during the forthcoming NATO council meeting, to be held in Brussels next week.
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We will discuss it in the NATO Council in Brussels
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Italy is aware that the conflict in Afghanistan is not only about the future of the Afghan population but the credibility of NATO, the war against terrorism and our own security
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They (NATO forces) cannot leave until Afghanistan is strong enough to look after itself ... Otherwise, we will return to the factional fighting of the 1990s.
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NATO already has thousands of troops, far more than the Taliban, but they have been unable to stop districts coming under (Taliban) control
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The repercussions for failing in Afghanistan is a failure of NATO in the first time they've gone out in this sort of effort, so that would be a huge propaganda victory for Al Qaeda, and it would be a huge devastating blow to the west if Nato does not succeed there
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it is unlikely that Islamabad will be more attentive to an apparently war-weary U.S. and NATO than it was to a fire-breathing Bush administration eight years ago.
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I served with NATO and the United Nations; commanded troops in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Macedonia; and participated in the Gulf War. I spent considerable time in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, and worked on international terrorism for the UK Government's Joint Intelligence Committee.
SOURCE: Daily Breeze
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