Nato seeks $2bn to build up Afghan forces

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Series Details 30.3.09
Publication Date 30/03/2009
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Article reports that Nato is seeking $2bn a year from the international community to bolster Afghanistan's security forces, according to Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, secretary-general of the alliance, March 2009.

Preview of Summit Meeting of NATO Heads of State and Government, Strasbourg, France / Kehl, Germany, 3-4 April 2009 and a 'big tent meeting' of Afghanistan's neighbours in The Hague, 31 March 2009.

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NRC Handelsblad, 24.3.09: The Hague gets ready for big tent meeting http://www.nrc.nl/international/article2191434.ece/The_Hague_gets_ready_for_big_tent_meeting

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