{"id":3497,"date":"2021-06-08T08:29:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T08:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caps.af\/?p=3497"},"modified":"2021-06-08T08:29:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T08:29:40","slug":"nato-chief-vows-continued-support-to-afghans-despite-withdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caps.af\/?p=3497","title":{"rendered":"NATO Chief Vows Continued Support to Afghans Despite Withdrawal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><strong>(TOLO News): NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says the alliance is ending its military mission in Afghanistan, but it is not ending its support for Afghans, reiterating that they are looking into ways \u201cto preserve our hard-won gains\u201d in the country.\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cAt the same time, of course, we\u2019re also looking into the future. And addressing how can we preserve our hard-won gains in Afghanistan,\u201d Stoltenberg said, mentioning that \u201cwe are withdrawing our troops in a coordinated way\u201d\u00a0The NATO chief said that the alliance will continue \u201cfunding Afghan forces.\u201d\u00a0\u201cWe will also look into how we can provide out-of-country training to train the Afghan forces, especially their special operation forces outside Afghanistan,\u201d he said at an event on Monday hosted by the Atlantic Council.\u00a0\u00a0Stoltenberg added: \u201cWe\u2019re also working on how can we maintain some critical infrastructure, as for instance, the airport, to also support the presence of the broader international community, diplomatic presence, but also development aid and so on. So NATO will continue to be committed to Afghanistan, but in another way than over the last two decades with a big military operation.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0The withdrawal of international troops from Afghanistan started on May 1, something that was accompanied by concerns about the country\u2019s political future and whether the achievements of the last two decades will be maintained.\u00a0Stoltenberg assured that NATO will have a civilian presence in Afghanistan, helping Afghan forces with capacity building, and so on at the ministerial level or for the different security institutions.\u00a0 The NATO chief said that there is \u201ca lot of uncertainty\u201d in Afghanistan and \u201cit\u2019s a very difficult situation.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cWe had several ministerial meetings, we had many meetings at the ambassadorial level in Brussels. So we consulted, but of course, it was a difficult decision to end the military mission which we had for almost two decades,\u201d Stoltenberg said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(TOLO News): NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says the alliance is ending its military mission in Afghanistan, but it is not ending its support for Afghans, reiterating that they are looking into ways \u201cto preserve our hard-won gains\u201d in the country.\u00a0\u201cAt the same time, of course, we\u2019re also looking into the future. And addressing how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3498,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497\/revisions\/3498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}