Tuesday June 4, 2013
Kabul (BNA) US President Barak Obama has said that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to hold meeting of heads of state from the alliance members countries before termination of US combat mission in Afghanistan in 2014.
In a meeting with NATO secretary general Andres Fog Rasmussen, US president Obama announced that the alliance will hold session of heads of state from member nations in 2014 and the summit will analyze withdraw of NATO forces from Afghanistan and presence of US troops in the country after 2014.
In the meeting with the NATO secretary general Andres Fog Rasmussen in Washington US president Barack Obama announced that the alliance will hold meeting of heads of state from member nations next year to evaluate and analyze presence of US forces in the country after 2014 including war potentials of Afghan National Security Forces and plans of the US for Afghanistan after the timeline set for evacuations of international troops from the country in 2014.
President Obama reiterated that in the heads of state conference, the US and the NATO alliance intend to discuss overall security situations of Afghanistan after 2014 and most importantly war capabilities of Afghan security institutions.
Because, both the US and NATO want to be assured that Afghanistan never become hideout and safe haven to international terrorist mainly A Qaeda terrorist network and its counterparts.
Obama added that exact date of the NATO heads of state meeting would be announced by the secretary general Rasmussen.
Meanwhile, NATO secretary general Andres Fog Rasmussen announced that the alliance terminate its combat mission in Afghanistan in 2014 but committed to continue providing military training to the Afghan security institutions following the timeline set for withdraw of foreign forces.
Rasmussen emphasized that NATO’s main mission is ISAF mission and soon we will reach on a destiny making process, because, in the near future Afghan people would shoulder complete responsibility of their country and NATO is committed to continue backing Afghan security forces and added that NATO still constitutes world powerful military alliance.
However, in 2013 the Taliban and their terrorist collaborators conducted bloody attacks in various regions of Afghanistan particularly in Kabul, but, Afghan security forces effectively suppressed these attackers and responded properly, said NATO secretary general Andres Fog Rasmussen, adding that ANSF has accomplished duties effectively in recent years and increase or decrease on strength of these forces related to the decision of government of Islamic republic of Afghanistan.
He reiterated that the alliance is fully committed to support Afghanistan in the transformation decade starting in 2014 until 2024 and it demonstrates longstanding supports of international community to Afghanistan following the timeline of foreign troop’s pullout.
Security institutions of Afghanistan unveils that Afghan National Security Forces have retained sufficient war potentials and they are fully capable of conducting their professional duties in effective manner and international community is also interested to contribute in boosting up war capabilities of Afghan security institutions so that these forces protect their country from internal and external threats effectively and Washington has also vowed to provide war plans to Afghan forces.
This is while more than 62,000 US and 32,000 NATO forces confronting the insurgent Taliban and their Al Qaeda counterparts in various parts of the country.
