Исполняющий обязанности помощника министра обороны США по делам ИТР Дэвид Хелви, направил письмо с благодарностью начальнику Генерального штаба Вооруженных сил Монголии Д. Ганзоригу.
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On May 10 North Atlantic Treaty Organization Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg met with Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg at NATO headquarters in Brussels to sign an agreement on the opening of a NATO Liaison Office in Vienna.
The NATO chief thanked Austria for twenty-six years of military cooperation, beginning with Austria joining the Partnership for Peace program in 1995. In particular he expressed appreciation for the nation’s contribution to NATO’s International Security Assistance Force mission in Afghanistan, where its troops served with those of fifty-three other countries under NATO command. (Among the others were fellow European Union member states and NATO partners Ireland, Finland, Sweden and Switzerland. In 2014 Finland and Sweden were elevated to the status of Enhanced Opportunities Partners. The two nations were in charge of Mazar-i-Sharif in Balkh province where their troops engaged in combat operations while under NATO comm
After nearly twenty years of engagement in Afghanistan, the United States has now set in motion the process of pulling out all its forces by September of this year.
The US’ allies, many of which were caught by surprise by Washington’s announcement, are following suit. At the time of President Joe Biden’s announcement in April, the combined Allied presence in Afghanistan has dwindled to around 10,000 troops; of which, over 2,500 are American.
Though the Americans have the largest deployment of troops in Afghanistan, and provide the bulk of logistical support for other Allied troops, the US forces are highly reliant on joint cooperation between the various contingents within the international coalition. This fact is not always fully appreciated in the US, where the Afghan operation is often seen as a unilateral endeavor that has turned into an endless burden that is not shared with any of the US’ allies in Europe and Asia.