At an unprecedented appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington yesterday, the British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, warned that sending more troops to Afghanistan was all well and good but that a fresh political strategy had to be put in place also.
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TheIndependent on 22nd Jan 2010 (via rss.feedsportal.com)
An insurgent attack in south Afghanistan killed at least six foreign troops and two Afghan soldiers, days before Washington is due to complete a review of its strategy
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FT on 12th Dec 2010 (via ft.com)
ALLIED troops must stay in Afghanistan to prevent the Taliban filling any "vacuum", the Foreign Secretary said today.
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Scotsman on 17th Nov 2009 (via news.scotsman.com)
David Miliband the Foreign Secretary has insisted that troops fighting in Afghanistan are engaged in a battle for "the future of Britain" after eight troops were killed in 24 hours.
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Telegraph on 11th Jul 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
David Miliband is to discuss the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan with Hillary Clinton in Washington today. Miliband will become the first foreign minister to hold face-to-face talks with Clinton since she became US secretary of state. The US is conducting a review of its Afghanistan policy against a background of growing disillusionment with the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, whose governm...
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Guardian on 3rd Feb 2009 (via guardian.co.uk)
Foreign Secretary signals change in Afghan strategy trying to persuade Taliban fighters to enter politics.
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Telegraph on 17th Nov 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
PRIME Minister David Cameron restated his support for the American strategy in Afghanistan when he met US defence secretary Robert Gates for talks in Downing Street yesterday.
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Scotsman on 8th Jun 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
David Miliband has urged President Hamid Karzai to set a "new contract" with the Afghan people, as he outlined a political strategy to divide the Taliban, stamp out corruption and improve relations with Pakistan
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FT on 17th Nov 2009 (via traxfer.ft.com)
PRIME Minister David Cameron restated his support for the American strategy in Afghanistan when he met US defence secretary Robert Gates for talks in Downing Street yesterday.
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Scotsman on 7th Jun 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
Having returned from Washington DC, where I spoke to a range of senior policy-makers about Afghanistan and Pakistan, I am struck by how much confusion there is about what President Obama meant when he said that he wanted US combat troops return home in 2011. Did he mean that 2011 would allow the first assessment of the progress and his strategy and a tokenistic reconfiguration or forces? Or did he...
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Spectator on 4th Jun 2010 (via spectator.co.uk)
Britain and America are working closely to ensure their Afghanistan strategy is as "clear, as effective and as decisive as possible", David Miliband stressed today.
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TheIndependent on 11th Oct 2009 (via rss.feedsportal.com)
