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No Deadline Set for Signing Afghan-US Security Pact: MoFA

No Deadline Set for Signing  Afghan-US Security Pact: MoFA

KABUL - Afghan Foreign Minister stated Sunday that the Afghan government has not specified any deadline for signing the security agreement with the United States and that once signed the agreement will not be implementable before the end of 2014.

While the strategic agreement between the two countries was signed last May and it is said that a one-year timeframe after the strategic pact was given for signing the security pact, the foreign ministry has said there is no such thing as a deadline for signing the next pact.

"There was not and has not been such a thing as a deadline determined for the bilateral security agreement between Afghanistan and the United States of America," said Janan Moosazai, spokesman of Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The agreement will clear the manners of continuation to Kabul-Washington cooperation on security, defense, and fight against insurgency. However, it is essential to consider interests of both sides within the agreement, the ministry added.

"What's important to the government of Afghanistan is to sign a comprehensive and truly long-term agreement with the United States of America, an agreement that will support interests of both sides, an agreement that can be enforced between the two countries for a long time. We shouldn't do it hurriedly, to sign a document with which one side or another is not satisfied," he added.

Moosazai pointed out that the starting point to implement the security pact between the two countries is considered to be the beginning of 2015.

"The bilateral security agreement between Afghanistan and the United States of America is for the phase after transition process, that means even if the bilateral security agreement between Afghanistan and the United States of America is signed tomorrow, it will not be enforced and implemented before the end of 2014. Therefore, the commencement for implementing the bilateral security agreement is January 2015," he said.

Although it has been constantly said that Afghanistan's security will be sturdily in relation to signing of US-Afghanistan security agreement, some have doubted how the two sides would respond to each other's demands. (Tolo News)