(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - August 22, 2010: After responsibility for security is handed over to Afghan police and soldiers in 2014, German police trainers will continue to teach local recruits."That seems to me to be in tune with the sustainability of our current engagement," German interior minister Thomas de Maiziere told the dpa news agency.
"But whether three, five, twenty or another number of police trainers will stay in Afghanistan, I can't yet say."
In July, Afghan President Harmid Karzai told international diplomats at a conference that 2014 was the date when Afghans "will be responsible for all military and law enforcement operations throughout our country."
It is a non-binding date, but has been seized upon by Western politicians facing electorates at home who are increasingly opposed to sending soldiers to fight an increasingly powerful Taliban insurgency for a national government plagued by high levels of corruption.
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