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Originally Posted by Charles_Main  you do realize the NATO treaty does not even cover deployments out side of Europe and North American right? Hence the name
North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Maybe this is why many NATO nations are fighting sending troops to Afghanistan, and WHY NATO might not have been the best choice to send there. |
That sounded like Ron Paul.
ISAF - Mandate
ISAF has a peace-enforcement mandate under Chapter VII of the UN Charter. Eight UN Security Council Resolutions – 1386, 1413, 1444, 1510, 1563, 1623, 1707 and 1776 – relate to ISAF.
However, ISAF is not a UN force. It is a coaliton of the willing deployed under the authority of the UN Security Council. 40 nations throughout the world currently contribute to ISAF.
The NATO mission itself was created in accordance with the Bonn Conference of December 2001 and its tasks are detailed in a Military Technical Agreement of January 2002 between the ISAF Commander and the Afghan Transitional Authority.
In August 2003, upon request of the UN and Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, NATO took command of ISAF.