Transferring responsibility – supporting Afghanistan in the long term
Sat, 20.11.2010
Photo: REGIERUNGonline/Kugler
November 2011: Afghanistan Conference in
Bonn
As of next year NATO aims step by
step to transfer responsibility for security in Afghanistan to the
Afghans themselves. A conference in Germany is to decide on the
further procedure to stabilise the country.
The transfer of the responsibility
for security in Afghanistan must be sustainable and irreversible,
demanded Chancellor Angela Merkel at the summit meeting of the
heads of state and government of NATO member states in Lisbon.
Lasting security cannot be achieved by military means alone,
declared Angela Merkel. Military efforts must go hand in hand with
a political process.
This will also be the aim of an Afghanistan Conference that is to be held next November in Bonn, in response to a proposal of the Afghan President Hamid Karsai - ten years after the United Nations conference on Afghanistan that was held in December 2001 on the Petersberg near Bonn. This 2001 conference produced the first successful agreement on Afghanistan.
Photo:
REGIERUNGonline/Kugler Working
session”Today marks a new phase
of our mission in Afghanistan," declared NATO Secretary General,
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, as he opened the consultations among troop
providers. President Karsai and UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon
also attended. At the Afghanistan Conference held in London in
July, the Afghan President declared that it was his goal to see the
responsibility for security throughout Afghanistan in Afghan hands
by 2014.
This will also be the aim of an Afghanistan Conference that is to be held next November in Bonn, in response to a proposal of the Afghan President Hamid Karsai - ten years after the United Nations conference on Afghanistan that was held in December 2001 on the Petersberg near Bonn. This 2001 conference produced the first successful agreement on Afghanistan.
Consultations among troop providing nations
Photo:
REGIERUNGonline/Kugler Working
session”Today marks a new phase
of our mission in Afghanistan," declared NATO Secretary General,
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, as he opened the consultations among troop
providers. President Karsai and UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon
also attended. At the Afghanistan Conference held in London in
July, the Afghan President declared that it was his goal to see the
responsibility for security throughout Afghanistan in Afghan hands
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