Monday, December 19, 2011
Kabul (BNA) General Abdul Rahim Wardak Minister of Defense in his meeting with the Italian Defense Minister discussed regional and Afghanistan’s issues, especially the Western provinces, development of national army, preparedness for transition of security to the Afghan security forces and success of this process.
General Wardak said that the Afghan forces are ready to successfully achieve the second phase of the security transition, however, he reiterated on the equipping of national army with the standard arms, to be able to have the ability of ensuring its domestic and external security of the country after 2014.
The Italian, Defense Minister said that we will cooperate with the Afghan national in the long-term and this cooperation will continue after 2014 as well.
Both of them assessed the effectiveness of understanding between Italy and Afghanistan in the long-term and they reiterated the continued cooperation to the interest of the region as well.
