Emerging from a meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the White House, Obama said not only the United States, but also all NATO members should offer training and other support to Afghan forces following the drawdown of NATO troops.
Obama said the issue will be discussed at a NATO summit slated for July 2016 in the Polish capital city of Warsaw.
American and NATO troops ended their combat role in Afghanistan at the end of 2014, with some 12,000 coalition troops remaining in the Asian country to play supporting roles.
In March, Obama agreed to maintain the current level of 9,800 U. S. troops until the end of 2015, in a departure from his original plan to reduce it to some 5,500, following a meeting with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at the White House.
On the situation in Ukraine, Obama accused Russia of taking an "increasingly aggressive posture" in the country's east, while Stoltenberg called for a "full implementation" of cease-fire agreements and urged Russia to withdraw its forces from Ukraine.
The NATO chief said he and Obama have a "common understanding" that the military bloc is facing a "new security environment."
Source:Xinhua - globaltimes.cn
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- The Afghan security forces killed four attackers after hours of fierce clashes in the capital's diplomatic district overnight Tuesday, an Afghan official said early Wednesday...
He added the assailants have failed to inflect casualties on civilians or security forces.
The attack began late on Tuesday night after four attackers tried to take control of a guest house and a nearby hotel laying at the site of a hill in heavily guarded Wazir Akbar Khan in central Kabul........http://www.china.org.cn/world/2015-05/27/content_35671716.htm
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