{"id":91462,"date":"2019-09-12T04:11:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T04:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/nato-reiterates-support-for-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:18:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:18:10","slug":"nato-reiterates-support-for-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/nato-reiterates-support-for-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO reiterates support for Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"327\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2019\/Sep\/12\/20190401_190401a-004_rdax_775x517.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MONITORING (SW) &ndash; The NATO Secretary General has reiterated support for Afghanistan as he paid tribute to the victims of 9\/11 attacks.<\/p>\n<p>At a ceremony in Brussels, he said soon after 9\/11, Allies deployed to Afghanistan. &ldquo;Hundreds of thousands of troops, from Europe, Canada and beyond, have served shoulder-to-shoulder with US troops. Many have paid the ultimate price. And many more have been seriously wounded.&nbsp;We remember them.&nbsp; And we must make sure that their sacrifice was not in vain&rdquo;, he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stoltenberg said the fight against terrorism is a global, generational fight.&nbsp;&ldquo;We remain committed to Afghanistan.&nbsp;NATO Allies and partners will continue to train and advise Afghan security forces.&nbsp; To make them stronger, so that they can fight international terrorism and create security and stability in their own country&rdquo;, he said, adding the NATO military presence is there to create the conditions for peace. &ldquo;But the road to peace is long and hard&rdquo;, he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has said the US is hitting the Taliban &ldquo;harder than they have ever been hit before&rdquo;. &ldquo;if for any reason they come back to our country, we will go wherever they are and use power the likes of which the United States has never used before, and I&rsquo;m not even talking about nuclear power&rdquo;, he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They will never have seen anything like what will happen to them,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;No enemy on earth can match the overwhelming strength, skill, and might of the American armed forces&quot;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) \u2013 The NATO Secretary General has reiterated support for Afghanistan as he paid tribute to the victims of 9\/11 attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-91462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}