NATO will increase the number of Afghan people for 5000.

KommentariiAfgansky fokus30.03.2009Barak Obama introduced a new strategy to fight al-Qaeda and talibamiNATO in Afghanistan would send an additional 5,000 military personnel and instructors, says Los Angeles Times, referring to the outgoing secretary general Jaap Alliance De Hoop Scheffer. He made this statement on 5 April, on the basis of the jubilee summit of the North Atlantic bloc in Strasbourg.
As explained by de Hoop Scheffer, this is not a regular army units and military advisers and trainers. 3 thousand troops would be temporarily introduced into the country to guard polling stations during the presidential elections in Afghanistan scheduled for 20 August. Instructors will get training the Afghan army and police declared the former Secretary General of NATO.
According to the White House, Robert Gibbs, who leads BBC, Britain would send an additional 900 people in Afghanistan, while Germany and Spain - on the 600. Italy and France have not yet been defined by his contributions, but also are bound to participate, he said.
Additional support operations will also have the Netherlands, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Poland, Turkey and Croatia, told the BBC the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
In addition, at the summit, it was stated that NATO countries will provide $ 100 million of additional funding for the Afghan army.
Commenting on increasing military contingent in Afghanistan, U.S. President Barack Obama said that the allies "unanimously and strongly" supported the new initiative passes Los Angeles Times. However, sources told the newspaper in the American delegation, the European members of NATO are still reluctant to participate more actively in the Afghan campaign.
The number of foreign troops in Afghanistan now exceeds 70 thousand. Most of them under NATO command, but the United States hold in the country and its own troops. December 20, 2008 chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, United States Michael Mullen, announced that by the summer of 2009, Washington will increase it to 30 thousand troops.