Obama promised to defeat al-Qaida and the Taliban.

U.S. President Barack Obama has promised to crush the radical group Al-Qaeda and the Taliban operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan, transmits AFP. Speaking on Friday morning with the programmatic statement of the Afghan strategy, Obama said of the need to clamp down on terrorists who threaten the U.S., and noted that the destabilization of the situation in Afghanistan. As expected, the president announced the forthcoming dispatch of additional troops to Afghanistan reinforcements.
The American president said that the terrorists of al-Qaida, dig around in the refuge on Pakistani soil, "to plan" against U.S. attack. According to Obama, the Pakistani authorities should be determined to cooperate with Washington in confronting terrorism.
U.S. President announced the establishment of a new international contact group to resolve the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan, which would have included the NATO countries and other partners are the U.S., the Central Asian republics, the Gulf States, Iran, Russia, India and China.
Talking about the growing risk of instability in Afghanistan, Obama touched on issues of both military and civilian cooperation with Kabul. The owner of the White House called on U.S. allies to participate in the reconstruction and development of Afghanistan. In addition, Obama said that the U.S. is not willing to turn a blind eye to corruption in the power structures in Afghanistan, and we intend to fight the abuse, together with the Afghan national government and foreign partners.
Obama reiterated that Afghanistan will be sent to American military support - in addition to the previously planned increase in U.S. troops to 17 thousand people. The new addition, which would include assistance in setting up national security forces of Afghanistan, including 4 thousand.