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Dawn News January 24, 2010 Gen Kayani to attend Nato meeting ISLAMABAD: Chief of the Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani will leave for Brussels on Monday to attend the Nato’s chiefs of defence staff meeting. Informed sources said that various sessions during the two-day meeting opening on Tuesday would focus on the progress made in the ongoing operations and the New Strategic Concept for Nato. Chiefs of defence of all the 28 Nato member states, 35 chiefs of defence of partner countries and troop contributing nations will be present. This would be the first visit of the army chief to Nato headquarters after the announcement by the US president for sending another 30,000 troops to Afghanistan and ‘re-adjustment’ of Nato’s various security posts close to Pakistan’s border, which many defence analysts believe could lead to more infiltration of militants into Pakistan, particularly after the US troop surge. Nato’s two strategic commanders, Adm Stavridis (Supreme Allied Commander Operations) and Gen Abrial (Supreme Allied Commander Transformation), the commanders of the Joint Force Commands Lisbon, Brunssum and Naples as well as Gen McChrystal, Commander ISAF, Lt-Gen Caldwell, and Commander Nato Training Mission for Afghanistan will participate in discussions on Nato’s operations. With regard to military aspects of the New Strategic Concept, the Military Committee has invited former US Secretary of State Dr Madeleine Albright, the chairperson of the group of Strategic Experts who are contributing to the development of Nato’s new Strategic Concept. =========================== Stop NATO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato Blog site: http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/ To subscribe, send an e-mail to: [email protected] or [email protected] Daily digest option available. ==============================
