After officials have met in Noordwijk which is a Dutch coastal town, about nine nations have offered more input towards the military mission in Afghanistan. France and Germany have offered to send in military instructors. The United States welcomes the development as it has been trying to get the allies to send more military troops to Afghanistan. Even the southern part of Afghanistan had offered resources according to Jaap de Hoop Scheffer.
He states: “We have 90% filled of what we need, but there are still shortages.”
The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force are comprised of troops from: Albania, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, and the United States.
The total number is over forty-thousand while national support gives over four-thousand troops.
Outside of the ISAF, the United States has seven-thousand more troops serving in Afghanistan. So far there are circumstances that prevent some countries from fighting and/or being based in the more hazardous areas of Afghanistan.
Franz Josef Jung, German’s Defense Minister said that reconstruction of Afghanistan is equally important as fighting the insurgency by the Taliban.
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