Friday, April 3, 2009

Ukraine has undertaken to supply troops to help NATO in Afghanistan.

Press konferentsiiInteresy United States in Central Azii09.03.2009Na readers responded international affairs columnist "Time News" Arkady DubnovUkraina and NATO signed an agreement on transit of non-military goods through the territory of the alliance of the country in Afghanistan, RIA Novosti reported.
The press service of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry told the agency that the contract was signed on Thursday, April 2, at NATO headquarters in Brussels. Under the document signed NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and the Head of Mission of Ukraine to NATO Igor Sagach.
What exactly will be done by the transit of NATO cargoes through the territory of Ukraine, has not yet reported.
Previously, the transit of non-military goods to Afghanistan, NATO has agreed to Russia. In particular, it was reported that formed in Riga test train went to Central Asia through the territory of the Russian Federation.
Previously, Americans had consent to use its territory for transit of non-military goods from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.
The need to expand the "northern corridor" in Afghanistan from U.S. and NATO was due to action by militants of the Taliban on the Afghan-Pakistan border, where most goods are shipped to deployed in Afghanistan, the foreign contingent.

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