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NATO Endorses Plan to Exit Afghanistan, US Holds Back
NATO leaders on Saturday endorsed a plan to start transferring leadership of the war in Afghanistan to Kabul, and completely hand over military control to Afghan forces by 2014...
But a senior U.S. official cautioned that President Barack Obama had not formally committed to ending the U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan on that date.....
NATO leaders were also meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday in a gathering that Rasmussen described as a "turning point" in relations between Moscow and the Western military alliance.
The NATO-Russia Council is expected to invite Russia to take part in a U.S.-European missile defense shield.
Rasmussen said they had already reached a deal to expand the transit of equipment through Russia to support NATO troops in Afghanistan....
NATO on Friday also agreed to a new, 10-year mission statement for the military alliance, that lays out how the organization plans to meet the security challenges of the 21st century.
NATO members also backed the approval of a START missile pact. Mr. Obama has called on the U.S. Senate to ratify the treaty between Moscow and Washington, aimed at cutting deployed nuclear weapons by about 30 percent.
NATO seems to have just taken a radically different position in regards to it's leadership, promoting the status of both the EU and Russia, while reducing the leadership role of the US.
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