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Obama, Rasmussen agree summit to focus on Afghan transition (10.05.2012)
(Quelle:RFE/RL)
Alliance members are expected to work out details of their planned withdrawal when NATO heads of state meet in Chicago on May 20-21.
UNAMA mandated to support Afghan-led elections (08.05.2012)
(Quelle:Reliefweb)
In addition to the Special Representative and the UNAMA political team, the UN also provides technical assistance through the United Nations Development Programme’s ELECT II capacity building project.
Afghans „ready“ to take over from French (07.05.2012)
(Quelle:RFE/RL)
The announcement May 7 follows French President-elect Francois Hollande's pledge to withdraw France's 3,300 troops by the end of 2012.
Obama signs pact in Kabul, turning page in Afghan war (01.05.2012)
(Quelle:New York Times)
President Obama, speaking to an American television audience on Tuesday night from Bagram Air Base, declared that he had traveled here to herald a new era in the relationship between the United States and Afghanistan, “a future in which war ends, and a new chapter begins.”
Afghanistan, U.S. reach pact on post-2014 American support (22.04.2012)
(Quelle:Washington Post)
After more than a year of negotiations, U.S. and Afghan officials reached an agreement Sunday affirming the United States’ commitment to Afghanistan for a decade after its formal troop withdrawal in 2014.
U.S. and NATO finalize pacts on ending Afghan war (18.04.2012)
(Quelle:New York Times)
The United States and its allies in NATO finalized agreements on Wednesday to wind down the war in Afghanistan, paving the way for President Obama to announce at a NATO summit meeting in Chicago next month that the unpopular, nearly 11-year-old conflict is close to an end.
President denies requests for foreign bases (17.04.2012)
(Quelle:New York Times)
Tajikistan, a former Soviet republic bordering Afghanistan, has rejected requests by foreign powers to allow them to set up military bases on its territory because it does not want to upset Russia, its president said Tuesday.
Australia to end Afghan mission in 2013 (17.04.2012)
(Quelle:Al Jazeera)
Australia has announced that its troops will be withdraw from Afghanistan nearly a year ahead of a previously scheduled 2014 withdrawal date. … That timetable would see the largest force provided by any nation outside of the NATO alliance leave the country a year ahead of the proposed December 2014 withdrawal date for all international forces.
NATO Chief: No Afghan “security vacuum” after 2014 (12.04.2012)
(Quelle:Yahoo News)
NATO will not leave a "security vacuum" in Afghanistan after its troops pull out in 2014, Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen pledged Thursday. "Our goal is an Afghanistan with its security provided by its own people and this goal has not changed," he told a joint news conference in Kabul with Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
Hamid Karzai may step down early from Afghan presidency (12.04.2012)
(Quelle:The Guardian)
The Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, has said he is considering stepping down a year early, potentially clearing the way for his successor to manage the departure of foreign troops from Afghanistan. Presidential elections are due in 2014, the same year western combat soldiers will complete their withdrawal.