The U.S. and the Afghan governments are considering pushing through a long-delayed partnership agreement by moving the contentious issues of night raids and control over detainees to separate negotiations, officials from both countries said. The two governments have been working for about a year to nail down the terms of a strategic partnership document that would govern U.S. operations in Afghanistan after 2014, when the Afghan government is expected to take charge of security countrywide. The pact is expected to provide for several thousand U.S. troops to stay in the country to train Afghan forces and help with counterterrorism operations. It will outline the legal status of those forces...Do you like this? |
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Source: http://article.wn.com/view/2012/02/22/Afghans_US_may_defer_issues_in_strategic_deal_e/
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