Nato to command Afghan mission

Nato decided to increase its activities outside Europe in a groundbreaking step 16 April 2003y, when the 19-member military alliance agreed to take command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan.

http://www.nato.int/docu/speech/2003/s030416a.htm http://www.nato.int/docu/speech/2003/s030416a.htm

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