Sunday, February 10, 2008

US warning on Nato's Afghan role

BBC

The European public needs convincing that Nato's mission in Afghanistan is part of a wider fight against global terror, the US defence secretary says.

Robert Gates warned that the future of Nato was at risk if it became a "two-tiered alliance" of countries which fought, and those that did not.

Mr Gates was speaking on the last day of a security conference in Munich.

The summit is also set to consider a threatened diplomatic crisis with Russia over Kosovan independence plans.......

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