Canada set to offer Afghanistan cash, but no troops, as NATO summit wraps
Globe and Mail Monday 21st May, 2012
Stephen Harper will pledge money to help Afghanistan pay for its own army after foreign troops leave in 2014, but he has so far resisted pressure to extend the Canadian Forces training mission there, officials say.At a NATO summit in Chicago where the alliance’s leaders were keen to show their war-weary publics that they’re sealing an accelerated exit strategy, the Prime Minister was in no rush to commit Canadian trainers to stay afte...
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