U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta attends the NATO defense minister meeting with non-NATO contributing nations in Brussels, Oct. 10, 2012. DOD photo by Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo.
NATO Defence Ministers Agree the Framework for a New, Post-2014 Afghanistan Mission -- Defpro
13:30 GMT, October 11, 2012 Defence Ministers from NATO Allies and ISAF partner nations on Wednesday (10 October) endorsed the broad political framework for a new training, advising and assisting mission in Afghanistan after 2014.
This framework will guide NATO’s military authorities as they take the planning process forwards for this new mission.
“When our ISAF mission ends at the end of 2014, we will offer a new mission to provide training, advice and assistance; this new mission will not be a combat mission” explained the Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at the beginning of the meeting. A more detailed outline for this mission will be completed early next year, with a complete plan agreed well before the end of 2013.
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