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| NATO Will Not Allow Afghanistan To Be A Safe Haven For Terrorists: Stoltenberg |
| 2015-12-02 |
| [Tolo News] NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said at a presser on Tuesday that after 2016 the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) mission will focus only on training and mentoring in Afghanistan and that bases will be located in only four provinces in the country. The two-day meeting of NATO foreign ministers began on Tuesday in Brussels at the organization's headquarters. NATO Secretary-General said on the sidelines of the meeting that Afghanistan is an important country for NATO, which will not allow the country to become a safe haven for Death Eaters as Afghanistan's insecurity was in turn a big threat to the security of NATO countries. "We are in Afghanistan to prevent that Afghanistan again becomes a safe haven for international terrorists. It is also in our security interests to make sure that doesn't happen. So we are in Afghanistan of course to support Afghans but we are in Afghanistan also to support ourselves because if Afghanistan becomes a safe haven for international Death Eaters that will also be a threat to us," he said. Stoltenberg said he supported the grinding of the peace processor by the Afghan government and asked the neighboring countries to help with the process. "We welcome efforts by all parties to further an Afghan-owned and an Afghan-led inclusive grinding of the peace processor. Good noble relations and regional support and cooperation remain essential for a stable Afghanistan that we all want to see," he added. These comments come on the heels of earlier statements that NATO will keep 12,000 troops in Afghanistan until the end of 2016. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Maybe, Afghanistan should see to eliminating safe havens. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2015-12-02 22:37 |
| #1 Pakistan, of course, is another story. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-12-02 15:42 |