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A summit of NATO leaders has agreed on a new strategy to try to defeat the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. The leaders said they would deploy up to 5000 extra troops, although many will be on a temporary basis, to strengthen security during the forthcoming elections in Afghanistan. They also agreed to provide funds and training for an expanded Afghan army and police force.
President Obama came to his first NATO summit seeking European support on Afghanistan. What he got was enthusiastic political backing and the promise of some 5000 extra troops, more civilian assistance and more aid. Beyond Afghanistan, the summit agreed to begin a review of NATO's role in the 21st century. This was in many ways a summit preordained to succeed. Both the US and its European partners were too determined to breathe new life into the trans-Atlantic alliance to allow it to fail.
Outside the summit venue, French police clashed with protesters throwing rocks and petrol bombs. A hotel and a border post were set on fire. At the same summit, the Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen has been named as the next Secretary General of NATO. Mr. Rasmussen, who has led a center-right coalition in Demark since 2001, will take over from Jaap de Hoop Scheffer in August this year. His candidacy had been opposed by Turkey which was unhappy with his handing of a row over Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad and the presence of a pro-Kurdish television station on Danish soil.
President Obama came to his first NATO summit seeking European support on Afghanistan. What he got was enthusiastic political backing and the promise of some 5000 extra troops, more civilian assistance and more aid. Beyond Afghanistan, the summit agreed to begin a review of NATO's role in the 21st century. This was in many ways a summit preordained to succeed. Both the US and its European partners were too determined to breathe new life into the trans-Atlantic alliance to allow it to fail.
Outside the summit venue, French police clashed with protesters throwing rocks and petrol bombs. A hotel and a border post were set on fire. At the same summit, the Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen has been named as the next Secretary General of NATO. Mr. Rasmussen, who has led a center-right coalition in Demark since 2001, will take over from Jaap de Hoop Scheffer in August this year. His candidacy had been opposed by Turkey which was unhappy with his handing of a row over Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad and the presence of a pro-Kurdish television station on Danish soil.
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