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UK`s Cameron says NATO must hold Afghan course
NATO nations must stick to their plans for a 2014 pullout from Afghanistan, British Prime Minister David Cameron said.
London: NATO nations must stick to their
plans for a 2014 pullout from Afghanistan despite tensions
over the shooting of 16 villagers by a US soldier, British
Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday.
Cameron said the killings in the southern province of Kandahar would have an "impact", but that in his talks this week with US President Barack Obama in Washington he would insist on the need to hold the course. London: NATO nations must stick to their plans for a 2014 pullout from Afghanistan despite tensions over the shooting of 16 villagers by a US soldier, British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday.
Cameron said the killings in the southern province of Kandahar would have an "impact", but that in his talks this week with US President Barack Obama in Washington he would insist on the need to hold the course. He added: "In terms of my talks with President Obama, we have a good plan. We have a plan which is about transitioning Afghanistan over to Afghan control.
"And I think the most important thing is that we stick to that plan, we deliver that plan, and then we can bring our troops home, having done a good job in giving Afghanistan at least a chance of stability and prosperity and growth for the future."
Britain is the second biggest contributor of troops to Afghanistan after the United States, with 9,500 soldiers there.
The Afghan parliament today demanded that the US soldier should be put on public trial in Afghanistan for the killings, the latest in a series of actions by foreign troops that have provoked outrage.
PTI
Cameron said the killings in the southern province of Kandahar would have an "impact", but that in his talks this week with US President Barack Obama in Washington he would insist on the need to hold the course. London: NATO nations must stick to their plans for a 2014 pullout from Afghanistan despite tensions over the shooting of 16 villagers by a US soldier, British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday.
Cameron said the killings in the southern province of Kandahar would have an "impact", but that in his talks this week with US President Barack Obama in Washington he would insist on the need to hold the course. He added: "In terms of my talks with President Obama, we have a good plan. We have a plan which is about transitioning Afghanistan over to Afghan control.
"And I think the most important thing is that we stick to that plan, we deliver that plan, and then we can bring our troops home, having done a good job in giving Afghanistan at least a chance of stability and prosperity and growth for the future."
Britain is the second biggest contributor of troops to Afghanistan after the United States, with 9,500 soldiers there.
The Afghan parliament today demanded that the US soldier should be put on public trial in Afghanistan for the killings, the latest in a series of actions by foreign troops that have provoked outrage.
PTI