Washington: US President Barack Obama said that US is not planning for “sudden” changes to the withdrawal of US troops in Afghanistan and confirmed NATO forces will switch to a support role next year, media reported on Wednesday.
Along with British Prime Minister David Cameron in a joint press conference Obama said that the United States would stick with a timetable already agreed with its NATO partners.
“I don’t anticipate at this stage that we’re going to be making any sudden additional changes to the plan that we currently have,” “We have already taken out 10,000 of our troops. We’re slated to draw down an additional 23,000 by this summer,” US president added.
Obama said that they would complete this mission and it would be completedin a responsible manner adding that NATO would make sure that Afghanistan never becomes a place for an attack on their countries.
On the occasion Cameron vowed that Britain would not “give up” on the Afghanistan war even though they were in the final stages of the military mission there.
“Britain has fought alongside America ever since the start. We have 9,500 soldiers still serving,” he recalled.
And he said he believed “the situation is considerably improved” with the US surge in addition to the “additional UK troops that we put in had had a transformative effect. The level of insurgent attacks are down and the level of security is right up.”
it is to be mentioned here that UK Prime minister is visiting United States to discuss the issue of transition of forces from Afghanistan.
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