NATO Warns Afghan President Karzai To Sign The Security Agreement Or Risk A Complete Pullout

NATO Warns Karzai To Sign Troop Accord Or Risk Pullout -- Bloomberg

NATO pushed Afghanistan to agree to a scaled-back international troop presence after the withdrawal of all combat forces at the end of 2014, warning that the alternative would be a complete pullout that leaves the country at the mercy of a reinvigorated Taliban.

U.S. allies in Europe joined the Obama administration in pressuring Afghan President Hamid Karzai to sign the troop-stationing accord with the U.S., to allow time next year to shift international troops into a backup and training role.

While other U.S. officials have said the accord must be signed this month, Secretary of State John Kerry said today in Brussels that he hasn’t spoken of a “hard, fixed, specific” deadline. He said foreign ministers from all 28 NATO countries at a meeting “voiced a hope that this can be done sooner, not later.”

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