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Rasmussen calls for more military trainers for Afghanistan
Sep 2, 2009, 15:19 GMT
Brussels - NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Wednesday in Brussels called on the military alliance's 28 member states to send more instructors to train Afghan security forces, saying they were urgently needed if NATO force numbers were ever to be reduced.
Rasmussen said the North Atlantic Treaty Organization needed to do more to train and equip Afghan forces so that Afghans could take over the leadership of their own defence.
'We need all the allies and partners to do more so that, eventually, we can start to do less,' Rasmussen said.
There are currently 64,500 soldiers in the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.
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