NATO sticking to 2014 date for ending combat operations in Afghanistan

Brussels - NATO chief officer, said Monday that his plan for coalition forces in Afghanistan, the end of 2014 to comply with the security on the one hand, commented that he came to France after the war, it is the duration of the handover of his thrusting speed up the NATO operation in a year by .

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen admitted that the final phase of the province, the Afghan authorities and the district is responsible for the transfer of lead from the start to be "mid--2013." Areas and cities, a number of changes have already been transferred to the Afghan army and police began a year ago.
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Still, the overall NATO force planning to bring back the date of 2014 is pegged, Fogh Rasmussen said after a meeting with Romanian President Traian Basescu.
"The NATO road map that the Lisbon summit in 2010, in outline, which we have been gradually Afghans and start a process which is expected to be completed end of 2014 under the leadership responsibilities will be delegated to staff," Fogh Rasmussen said.
Last week, French President Nicolas Sarkozy of France announcing its 2013 exit from the speed and NATO combat mission will end by asking NATO jolted. After the announcement of a French soldier kills 4 Afghan soldiers on January 20.
Moved to an alliance in Europe and the United States, the Afghan government to slow the fight against corruption and the Taliban insurgency that remains unbeaten after decades of war than the already strained by the economic pain was seen as the last hole.
It is unclear if all of the hands of security forces on foreign and Afghan forces in 2013 to call attention to Sarkozy on Thursday and Friday in Brussels, when a NATO defense ministers' meeting will be presented. Britain and Germany have already indicated they will be in 2014 on a timeline.
Basescu said that Romania, with 1,900 troops to a possible, training will focus on Afghanistan and the military and police forces.
Coalition forces in Afghanistan, Fogh Rasmussen said that from mid-2013's role will change from combat to support roles, "There is nothing new."
NATO's security force, which gradually expanded to more than 350,000 members, the training is to run a fast car. But the fact that NATO troops on the Afghan army and police to increase the Afghan army has raised fears of Taliban infiltration.
France, which currently has a coalition force of about 3,600 soldiers, the top five of the largest troop - contribution to the countries of Britain, Germany and Italy joins. All national contingents 90,000 - dwarfed by the powerful U.S. forces.
Sarkozy's government and political pressure on the United States, 2014 was previously pegged the pullout has been under French troops withdrew. Polls show a majority of French as a primary force to bring back - and this is a step in the re-election of Sarkozy may affect the risk.
Socialist candidate François Hollande, the front-runner, that if the French forces withdrew at the end of this spring, he hopes that this year.