NATO Prepares Full Afghanistan Exit Plan -- Al Jazeera
Alliance says it will have to withdraw its 19,000 troops by December if Afghans fail to agree a security pact with US.
NATO's secretary general has echoed a US announcement that it is planning to withdraw all of its troops from Afghanistan if a security deal cannot be agreed with the Afghan government.
The blunt statement from Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Wednesday ratchets up pressure on the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, to strike a deal with the US.
On Tuesday, The US president, Barack Obama, threatened to withdraw all US troops from Afghanistan by the end of this year if a pact wasn't signed.
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