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| BSA Not Up For Renegotiation: Dempsey |
| 2013-12-13 |
[Tolo News] The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martine Dempsey on Thursday said that the U.S. was not planning for any further negotiations over the Kabul-Washington security pact, which continues to await Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... 's signature. Washington and Kabul have been engaged in negotiations over signing of the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) for well over a year, yet no accord has been finalized. Although many thought the issue was put to rest when the Loya Jirga approved the pact and recommended it be signed as soon as possible, things changed when Karzai set new preconditions and pushed back the timeline to April. "I think it was clear that over the course of an exhausting negotiations over many months there was a text that was agreed upon and that text was considered to be closed at some points and presented to the Loya Jirga," Dempsey said while speaking at Bagram Air Base. "It's not "our intention to reopen the text and to renegotiate that which had been previously been discussed, and that's not a threat., The U.S. has said it and its 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... partners need the BSA to be signed before the end of the year in order to make plans for their troops post-2014, which are expected to fill a training, advising and assisting role for the Afghan forces. |
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