Australia urges Europe to do more in Afghanistan
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Europe should deploy more troops to the dangerous southern regions of Afghanistan, Australia's foreign minister said Friday as the country mourned its second soldier killed there in three weeks.
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Nato's secretary general calls on Canada to keep soldiers in Afghanistan beyond the current 2009 deadline.
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Defence Minister Des Browne has appealed to London's NATO allies to &quot;step up to the plate&quot; and boost their support for the military alliance's embattled mission in Afghanistan.
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ISN SECURITY WATCH (13/10/04) - The US government is trying to convince its European partners to do more in Afghanistan and to put NATO in charge of overall responsibility for peacekeeping and reconstruction in the country.
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"We will be, as I said before, in this country, Afghanistan, for the long haul, and it's important for us to be here in partnership with countries from NATO"  Leaders of France, Australia and Italy traveled to Afghanistan over the weekend to meet with President Hamid Karzai and visit troops stationed in the conflict-ridden country.Nicolas Sarkozy, the first French president to visit Afghanistan, signaled that French troops would not pull out of the country anytime soon. He told Karzai that France has a long-term political and military interest in Afghanistan, Karzai's office said in a statement.'We did not want to give the signal of a withdrawal, which would have been a detestable signal at a time when we see the ravages that terrorism can do to the world,' Sarkozy said on France-Info radio. Read more
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President Bush on Thursday pressed NATO allies to provide a bigger and more aggressive force to protect the fragile Afghan state.
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder called Wednesday for an extension of the German Army's 2,100-man United Nations mission in northern Afghanistan.
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SINGAPORE -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates today urged Asian nations to do more to defeat a global terrorist threat and to ensure that Afghanistan not be allowed to slip back into chaos.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday pushed European allies for more troops to re-energize efforts in southern Afghanistan, where the Taliban insurgency has increased its attacks in the 18 months since NATO took command of the war.
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Washington will send more troops to Afghanistan if need be, Sen. John McCain said Saturday, while urging European allies to send their troops to the country's restive south.
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Australia is considering plans to double its troop deployment to Afghanistan to about 1,000 to head off an expected spring resurgence of al Qaeda and Taliban fighters, Defense Minister Brendan Nelson said on Thursday. But Nelson ruled out any plans to follow Britain's lead and reduce Australia's military commitments in Iraq, saying any phased withdrawal of soldiers helping provide security in Iraq's south would put the lives of those who remain in danger.
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Australia is in Afghanistan for the "long haul," Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on a surprise visit Saturday to the country, which is battling an intensifying insurgency led by Taliban extremists.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates is asking European allies for more troops to help stabilize Afghanistan, where the government is weak, the insurgency is relentless and casualties are mounting.
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NATO on Wednesday urged Canada not to pull its troops from Afghanistan's dangerous Kandahar region and pledged to help find the 1,000 additional allied troops Ottawa is demanding.
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The NATO chief on Friday called on Afghanistan to improve its government and strengthen its security forces to step up the fight against the Taliban.
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The leaders of France and Australia were both set to meet with Afghan President Hamid Karzai Saturday and visit with their respective country's troops participating in the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, a spokesman for Afghanistan's Foreign Ministry said.
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From Tuesday's Globe and Mail OTTAWA AND TIRIN KOT, AFGHANISTAN - Prime Minister Stephen Harper goes recruiting today, hoping to convince combat-shy Europeans to reinforce Canada's embattled troops doing much ...Comment