Building bridges for peace and security
Fri, 03.04.2009
This is why Germany is helping to train the Afghan security forces. This commitment remains. The Chancellor has already announced that Germany will continue to provide assistance in northern Afghanistan on the basis of the concept of networked security. For the first time ever, NATO member states had the opportunity to discuss further procedure in Afghanistan with the new US President Barack Obama.
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Old friends and new faces
There was, however, also a lot to celebrate on this 60th anniversary of the founding of NATO. Since 1949 it has been the world’s most important security-policy alliance. It sees itself as a community of values shared by free democratic states. It began with ten West European member states alongside the USA and Canada. Today it also embraces a number of Central and Eastern European states.
