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Russia allows NATO armored vehicle transit to Afghanistan

15:03 25/11/2010

Russia will allow NATO to transit armored vehicles to Afghanistan through its territory, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday.

"The eased transit regulations have been extended to armored vehicles with anti-mine protection," Lavrov said after talks with his Afghan counterpart Zalmay Rasul in Moscow.

The new deal was sealed at the landmark Russia-NATO summit in Lisbon last Saturday. It will curtail NATO's dependence on unstable Pakistan as a transit country.

The alliance already uses routes through Russia and neighboring Central Asian republics but current agreements only allow for the transportation of non-lethal supplies such as food and fuel.

NATO has vowed to hand over responsibility for security in Afghanistan to the Afghans by the end of 2014.

MOSCOW, November 25 (RIA Novosti)

Russia allows NATO armored vehicle transit to Afghanistan | Defense | RIA Novosti
 
Russia says will allow NATO armour vehicle transit


MOSCOW | Thu Nov 25, 2010 4:46am EST

Nov 25 (Reuters) - Russia will let NATO take armoured vehicles to Afghanistan through its territory under an expanded transit deal that would reduce reliance on volatile Pakistan, its foreign minister said on Thursday.

"The transit applies to armoured vehicles with anti-mine protection," Sergei Lavrov told a news briefing with his Afghan counterpart Zalmay Rasul. The transit agreement stops short of opening the Russian route for weapons for the NATO mission in Afghanistan, where Moscow fought a disastrous war that cost the lives of about 15,000 Soviet troops and still haunts Russia.

Rasul said Afghan President Hamid Karzai was planning a visit to the Russian capital in January 2011. Karzai has sought improved ties with Moscow, and asked Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on his last Russian trip in August for help in establishing peace and stability.

(Reporting by Alissa de Carbonnel, writing by Amie Ferris-Rotman; editing by Guy Faulconbridge)
 
Russia allows NATO armored vehicle transit to Afghanistan

15:03 25/11/2010

Russia will allow NATO to transit armored vehicles to Afghanistan through its territory, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday.

"The eased transit regulations have been extended to armored vehicles with anti-mine protection," Lavrov said after talks with his Afghan counterpart Zalmay Rasul in Moscow.

The new deal was sealed at the landmark Russia-NATO summit in Lisbon last Saturday. It will curtail NATO's dependence on unstable Pakistan as a transit country.

The alliance already uses routes through Russia and neighboring Central Asian republics but current agreements only allow for the transportation of non-lethal supplies such as food and fuel.

NATO has vowed to hand over responsibility for security in Afghanistan to the Afghans by the end of 2014.

MOSCOW, November 25 (RIA Novosti)

Russia allows NATO armored vehicle transit to Afghanistan | Defense | RIA Novosti
The dimensions of Afghan war's transit issues is already changing. :woot:
 
The alliance already uses routes through Russia and neighboring Central Asian republics but current agreements only allow for the transportation of non-lethal supplies such as food and fuel.

They might as well go the whole hog...
 

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