Wednesday, July 05, 2017
Kabul (BNA) Continuation of NATO’s cooperation in Political especially in Kabul Conference, political and military supports cooperation in implementing 4-years security plans, training security forces and militaries by expert foreign trainers and equipping them were four vital issues discussed at the Brussels meeting, Government Media & Information and Center (GMIC) reported on Tuesday.
Tareq Shah Bahrami, acting minister of defense participated at the Brussels meeting last week. Speaking in a press conference at GMIC, acting minister of defense said that these suggestions have been agreed by NATO.
Mr. Bahrami stressed, “NATO’s Defense Ministers pointed to terrorist’s threats and said that terrorists are still active in neighboring countries of Afghanistan. NATO confirmed that they will not allow terrorists to return Afghanistan to their havens.”
Acting defense minister said, “As a representative of Afghanistan in this meeting, he has pledged to fight against terrorists and corruptions especially in security entities in Afghanistan.”
He added in order to decrease corruptions in security institutions of country, supervision systems have been created for procurement affairs. He added that he has promised to the NATO’s Defense Ministers that NUG is committed to hire professional personnel in the security forces, especially in the MoD and that NUG has also obtained considerable so far.
In the Brussels meeting which was held last week, the world countries besides their continued commitment to support in training and equipping of the Afghan forces, also promised to increase the numbers of troops. Though, Mr. Bahrami did not clear the number of troops but said that U.S’s new strategy towards Afghanistan and region would be unveiled in ten days.
