World leaders plan to end Afghan war
23 May 2012 7:30 AM GMT
NATO leaders have endorsed President Barack Obama's plan for the withdrawal of the US-led international military force from Afghanistan by the end of 2014 in the midst of a decade long war.
NATO leaders were leaving Chicago with 'a clear road map' to bring the war in Afghanistan to a 'responsible end,' Obama said during a news conference Monday at the end of the two-day summit focused on the future of Afghanistan.
'We're now unified behind a plan to responsibly wind down the war in Afghanistan,' he said calling the decision a 'major step' toward the end of the war.
But Obama acknowledged that 'real challenges' remained in dealing with the problems across the border in Pakistan, and that the conference had not resolved the impasse over reopening supply lines or the other tensions about the fight against insurgents operating from safe havens there.
'We think that Pakistan has to be part of the solution in Afghanistan,' he said.
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he expected an agreement soon for Pakistan to reopen its border with Afghanistan to military shipments of departing NATO forces which would resolve a sticky issue.Â
NATO leaders were leaving Chicago with 'a clear road map' to bring the war in Afghanistan to a 'responsible end,' Obama said during a news conference Monday at the end of the two-day summit focused on the future of Afghanistan.
'We're now unified behind a plan to responsibly wind down the war in Afghanistan,' he said calling the decision a 'major step' toward the end of the war.
But Obama acknowledged that 'real challenges' remained in dealing with the problems across the border in Pakistan, and that the conference had not resolved the impasse over reopening supply lines or the other tensions about the fight against insurgents operating from safe havens there.
'We think that Pakistan has to be part of the solution in Afghanistan,' he said.
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he expected an agreement soon for Pakistan to reopen its border with Afghanistan to military shipments of departing NATO forces which would resolve a sticky issue.Â
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