NATO vows to 5 to send thousands more troops to Afghanistan

The White House announced Saturday after the NATO summit (NATO) NATO members expressed their readiness to deploy five thousand more troops in Afghanistan.

The Chairman welcomed Barak Obama's decision to send NATO troops could be deployed to Afghanistan, stressing the "design" of France and Germany to support this country.

Obama vowed on Saturday for saying al-Qaeda organization will not win on the NATO forces deployed in Afghanistan.

Obama said during a press conference in Strasbourg, "We are united, we are strong, we will not win and will accomplish our mission to ensure the security of our citizens."

Afghanistan
Obama and Sarkozy

In addition to electing a new secretary general of NATO, took control of the situation in Afghanistan to the meetings of the NATO summit.

The U.S. President, who was attending the NATO summit, the first since he took office, members of the alliance called for closer cooperation between its members and warned that the European continent over the country vulnerable to "terrorist" attacks.

NATO members did not offer the Europeans in the past, the enthusiasm of U.S. calls to beef up its forces deployed in Afghanistan, similar to the United States in the wake of Obama's announcement on the new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan.

But they have a marginal increase in the number of its troops there to help provide security during the elections in Afghanistan during the month of August next.

Elected secretary-general

Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Turkey is opposed to the nomination of the Prime Minister of Denmark for the post of Secretary General of NATO

In another context, the Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Jaap de Hoop Scheffer at the end of the NATO summit meeting in Strasbourg that the Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen will be appointed to succeed him after Turkey dropped its reservations on his appointment.

De Hoop Scheffer said at a news conference Saturday that the leaders of NATO countries unanimously agreed on the appointment of Rasmussen.

For his part, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul that Turkey's approval of the Prime Minister of Denmark, secretary general of NATO, came after the "guarantees" provided by the U.S. President Barack Obama to Ankara.

No mention of Turkish Prime Minister to the nature of these guarantees.

The differences on this matter has overshadowed the first day of the NATO summit in Strasbourg.

While Germany has urged NATO member states to choose the head of the Danish government as secretary-general of NATO, Turkey has insisted that NATO chooses another candidate to fill the position vacated at the end of the mandate of the current year in the month of July next.

Parting

President Bush said in referring to the defense issues in general: "We want to see that Europe has a much greater military capabilities."

He went on to say: "We look forward to a partnership with Europe, and therefore have a more stronger European defense capability as we can to meet the common threats we face a coordinated manner."

Later, the president said Obama, to gather in the French city of Strasbourg that the United States and Europe were allowed to weaken the alliance between the two in recent years.

He said the United States acted Loftily about the European allies, while Europeans have grown between the feelings of hatred of the United States. Obama stressed the need to change these attitudes.

He said: "I came to Europe this week to renew our partnership, a partnership in which the United States to hear the advice of friends and allies, and learn them, but they also bear the partnership our friends and allies of their responsibilities."

President Obama and that the U.S. goal is to finally rid the world of nuclear weapons, adding that he will make the details of its project on the prevention of the spread of nuclear weapons in a speech scheduled to throw in the Czech capital Prague on Sunday.

He said: "Despite the end of the Cold War, the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the theft of radioactive materials could lead to the removal of any town in this planet Bafodia."

Demonstrations
Protesters against the NATO

In the meantime, the demonstrations began in Strasbourg to protest against the policies of NATO, where police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the demonstrators.

And groups of young people traveled on the outskirts of the city, carrying banners reading "Stop the repression in London and Strasbourg," in reference to the demonstrations in London to coincide with the summit's.

The protesters smashed windows of shops and placed barricades on the streets.

NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization a joint defensive military intervention in its 28 countries.

NATO was set up by the Treaty signed in April 1949 in the U.S. capital Washington. The objective of the organization time to address the Soviet threat was founded on the principle of mutual solidarity among all its members.

France was announced last month to return to NATO command, after more than four decades of absence following the withdrawal of former French president Charles de Gaulle Paris leadership in 1966.