NATO will have new role in Afghanistan: Rasmussen

May 22, 2012 03:00

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said that the organisation will have a new mission and role in Afghanistan after all the international forces withdraw from the war-torn country.

"Let me be clear: this will not be ISAF under a different name," Rasmussen told media persons at a Chicago news conference after a meeting of NATO-led ISAF countries.

"It will be a new mission, with a new role for NATO," he said, adding, "The decision was taken at the invitation of the Afghan government."

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