By Prensa Latina
Bucharest : The president of the United States, George W. Bush, called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization member countries to increase the number of soldiers in Afghanistan.
In a speech shortly before opening the NATO summit in this capital, Bush ratified his country’s intention to send another 3000 marines to the Central Asian nation, as part of that political-military organization.
Bush used an alledge “real terrorist threat” as a pretext for the deployment of more soldiers in Afghanistan, saying that it must be a priority of the alliance.
The US president also backed the extension of the so called International Security Assistance Forces, with the joining of Ukraine and Georgia, despite the open opposition of various countries, among them Germany.
Meanwhile, The Guardian daily quoted British politician Paddy Ashdown on Wednesday as saying that NATO is close to lose control in Afghanistan and the increase of troops is not only what is needed to end with fighting in that Central Asian nation.
The ex leader of the Democrat Liberal Party of Great Britain and ex representative of the European Union in Bosnia, was veto by the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, for acting as special envoy of the United Nations in that Asian country.