We will continue beyond 2014 we will wind down. He has not reviewed options or made any decisions on it. The fulfillment of his commitment he made very clearly is to continue to draw down forces in afghanistan from the levels now that we have drawn down the surgeon forces over the course of the next two years. The pace of that drawdown is a decision and that he will be making in coming weeks and months. So general allan had recommended leaving between 600015,000 american troops there. Is that not true . Thats different than what you said. You said the president had decided. He has not decided on anything. He will evaluate proposals from the pentagon and elsewhere on what we might negotiate with the Afghan Government on a future presence in afghanistan procter we fulfill our commitments to end the war in afghanistan in 2014. That commitment and that presents would be very in scope as we talk about Counterterrorism Operations and the training of afghan forces. Last one hour. The meeting
This is the only way you can invest in syrians. This is why syria has to have a longterm plan to recover. Syria needs at least 60 billion to recover. With all the destruction that we have in all of our cities. I will end here and i will be more than happy to answer questions that you have a. Thank you very much. [applause] the first thing i would like to ask you, trying to look more into the new syrian position, my concern is that the rights of the minorities and in the new Syrian Opposition has not been really addressed as the same issues were also presented. How do you address this issue . Your last. Trying to think about what is going to happen next, that is an issue that the new syrian position should address. The rights of the minorities is an important issue. Sometimes we emphasize the issues from their own perspective. When the syrian uprising started, christians, alliance, and christians being killed by participating. He decided to go back to his hometown. He is from damascus,
Engineering student Somaya Faruqi had to flee Afghanistan to continue her studies after the Taliban government returned to power two years ago and banned more than 1.1 million girls and women from schools and universities.
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