Nato Signs Afghan Exit Route Deals
[Tolo News] NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants...
has signed a deal with Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan to remove evacuating vehicles and military equipment from Afghanistan.
The agreement will allow the military alliance to bypass Pakistain, which had blocked its supply routes from NATO entering Afghanistan after 24 Pak soldiers were killed last year in a NATO Arclight airstrike.
"We reached an agreement on reverse transit from Afghanistan with three Central Asian partners: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan,"
the NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said at a presser Monday.
"These agreements will give us a range of new options and the robust and flexible transport network we need," he said.
The NATO will begin troops withdrawal and equipment from Afghanistan later this year.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves...
the Washington continues talks to Pakistain to reopen routes blocked six months ago.
This deal means it can return equipment to Europe overland via Russia.
There are around 130,000 foreign forces in Afghanistan, 90,000 of which are US forces.
Posted by: Fred 2012-06-06 |