NATO Promises 'Very Robust' Approach In Afghanistan
June 15, 2006
NATO's secretary-general, Jaap De Hoop Scheffer (file photo) (AFP)
De Hoop Scheffer was speaking after talks with the Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper, in Ottawa.
U.S. troops are due to hand control of Afghanistan's southwestern provinces to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in the coming weeks.
Violence in southern Afghanistan today cost the lives of seven Afghan employees of the airfield in the southern city of Kandahar.
(Reuters, AP)