Looking to the year 2014 in Afghanistan
According to Mark Sedwill, NATO’s Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan, this year the international community must begin to focus on the transfer of responsibility for security to Afghanistan’s own security forces, scheduled by agreement to take place in 2014. Both Sedwill and Minister Stubb stressed that the transfer of responsibility, however, does not mean the end of the mission. Cooperation between the international community and Afghanistan will be needed for a long time.