Post by Jaga on Apr 6, 2008 9:24:31 GMT -7
In Europe NATO summit was in the news, here in America it seems that nothing counts except presidential elections.
Afghanistan is in dissaray. NATO is going to send more forces there!
www.rttnews.com/sp/todaystop.asp?date=04/04/2008&item=80
4/4/2008 3:26:37 PM The biggest-ever NATO summit concluded in the Romanian capital of Bucharest Friday, with the alliance reaching reconciliation over its mission in Afghanistan. Seven member states and three outsiders pledged to send extra troops to combat terrorism as part of NATO's biggest ongoing military operation.
Although the three-day summit witnessed a lot of political debates over the issue of membership for new states and the U.S. missile-defense plan in Eastern Europe, the biggest breakthrough was the alliance's 26 heads of states and governments setting aside their differences over an issue that once even threatened the very existence of NATO.
While leaders of nine states, including three nations that are not part of the treaty, together offered about 2,000 extra troops for the allied force in Afghanistan during the three day summit, it was the United States that capped the summit with a last minute announcement to send a “significant” number of extra troops to aid NATO's effort in Afghanistan in 2009.
Speaking to reporters as he flew from Bucharest to the Gulf state of Oman, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said, “President George Bush indicated that he expected the United States would make a significant additional contribution in 2009.”
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Afghanistan is in dissaray. NATO is going to send more forces there!
www.rttnews.com/sp/todaystop.asp?date=04/04/2008&item=80
4/4/2008 3:26:37 PM The biggest-ever NATO summit concluded in the Romanian capital of Bucharest Friday, with the alliance reaching reconciliation over its mission in Afghanistan. Seven member states and three outsiders pledged to send extra troops to combat terrorism as part of NATO's biggest ongoing military operation.
Although the three-day summit witnessed a lot of political debates over the issue of membership for new states and the U.S. missile-defense plan in Eastern Europe, the biggest breakthrough was the alliance's 26 heads of states and governments setting aside their differences over an issue that once even threatened the very existence of NATO.
While leaders of nine states, including three nations that are not part of the treaty, together offered about 2,000 extra troops for the allied force in Afghanistan during the three day summit, it was the United States that capped the summit with a last minute announcement to send a “significant” number of extra troops to aid NATO's effort in Afghanistan in 2009.
Speaking to reporters as he flew from Bucharest to the Gulf state of Oman, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said, “President George Bush indicated that he expected the United States would make a significant additional contribution in 2009.”
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