Obama kondigt NATO-aandacht voor Afghanistan na 2014 aan

The U.S. and its NATO allies will focus their summit next year on postwar planning for Afghanistan, President Barack Obama said.

Obama announced the subject of the alliance’s 2014 summit today as he finished a meeting at the White House with Anders Fogh Rasmussen, secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The men also discussed Syria, Libya, cybersecurity and joint surveillance capabilities. They didn’t publicly address non-combat troop levels in Afghanistan beyond 2014.

The summit will be an opportunity for the 28-member organization “to underscore this final chapter in our Afghan operations but also to paint a picture of the future whereby we’re partnering with the Afghan government on behalf of the Afghan people and on behalf of world security,” Obama said. The location hasn’t been set.