NATO Chief: Afghans Begin Control This Year -- Time Magazine
(TALLINN, Estonia) — NATO's top official says the alliance intends to start handing over responsibility for Afghanistan to the Afghan government this year.
The process is to be well under way by the summer of 2011, when President Barack Obama has said U.S. troops will begin coming home.
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told a news conference Friday at the conclusion of a two-day meeting of allied foreign ministers — including U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton — that they agreed on a general approach to transitioning to Afghan control.
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