DTN News - NATO SUMMIT IN CHICAGO: Barack Obama Snubs Asif Ali Zardari At NATO

DTN News - NATO SUMMIT IN CHICAGO:  Barack Obama Snubs Asif Ali Zardari At NATO


(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 21, 2012: BARACK Obama has snubbed Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari despite inviting him to a NATO summit in Chicago, as a bitter dispute rages over supply routes that could disrupt the planned US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.


The US President refused to meet Mr Zardari yesterday in the midst of Pakistan's refusal to compromise over increasing the fee for trucks to pass through its territory to 
Afghanistan from $US250 ($253) to $US5000.


Pakistan closed its borders and then demanded the huge price rise for moving US supply trucks through its territory after US air strikes killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in November.


Mr Zardari was invited to the NATO talks at late notice and US officials appear to have hoped a settlement of the transportation issue could have been reached before his arrival.


Instead, the conflict worsened yesterday.


It was made clear that Mr Obama was unwilling to meet Mr Zardari, and the diplomatic task was handed to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.


The dispute with Pakistan has forced unacceptable costs on the US as trucks transporting up to 40 per cent of equipment to and from Afghanistan have been forced to use a longer route through Russia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.


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DTN News - NATO SUMMIT IN CHICAGO: ISAF Nations To Decide On Next Transition Milestone / NATO Leaders Paying Honour With Respect To The Brave And Fallen Soldiers In Afghanistan

DTN News - NATO SUMMIT IN CHICAGO: ISAF Nations To Decide On Next Transition Milestone / NATO Leaders Paying Honour With Respect To The Brave And Fallen Soldiers In Afghanistan

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 21, 2012: British Prime Minister David Cameron, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta, U.S. President Barack Obama and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen observe a NATO color guard before a moment of silence honoring service members killed or wounded in Afghanistan at the NATO summit in Chicago, May 20, 2012. DOD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley

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DTN News - OBAMA BACK FROM AFGHANISTAN: US President Barack Returns To The White House From A Surprise Trip To Afghanistan And Signed A Strategic Partnership Agreement With President Hamid Karzai

DTN News - OBAMA BACK FROM AFGHANISTAN: US President Barack Returns To The White House From A Surprise Trip To Afghanistan And Signed A Strategic Partnership Agreement With President Hamid Karzai

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 2, 2012: US President Barack Obama walks from Marine One to the White House May 2, 2012 in Washington, DC. 

President Obama was returning from a surprise trip to Afghanistan where he signed a strategic partnership agreement with President Hamid Karzai, visited troops and addressed Americans from Bagram Air Base.

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DTN News - OBAMA IN AFGHANISTAN: President Barack Obama With Afghan President Hamid Karzai Signed Strategic Partnership Agreement In Kabul

DTN News - OBAMA IN AFGHANISTAN: President Barack Obama With Afghan President Hamid Karzai Signed Strategic Partnership Agreement In Kabul

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 2, 2012: US President Barack Obama (CL) attends a meeting with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai (CR), on May 2, 2012 in Kabul, Afghanistan. The US and Afghan Presidents signed a long-term strategic partnership outlining their cooperation following the 2014 withdrawal of NATO and allied forces. 

Obama made the secret visit to the country on the anniversary of Osama Bin Laden's death and made a primetime tv address to the American people from Bagram Air Base in Kabul.

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DTN News - OBAMA IN AFGHANISTAN: Obama’s Afghanistan Plan - Echoes of Vietnam In The U.S. Exit Strategy

DTN News - OBAMA IN AFGHANISTAN: Obama’s Afghanistan Plan - Echoes of Vietnam In The U.S. Exit Strategy

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 2, 2012: To understand the historical significance of President Barack Obama’s visit to Afghanistan on Tuesday, imagine that President Richard Nixon had, in the spring of 1972, flown to Saigon to signal American voters that the Vietnam war was coming to an end — and to ink a deal with President Nguyen Van Thieu codifying a long-term U.S. relationship with the Republic of South Vietnam, which would shortly be left responsible for its own security. 

“Today, I signed a historic agreement between the United States and Afghanistan that defines a new kind of relationship between our countries – a future in which Afghans are responsible for the security of their nation, and we build an equal partnership between two sovereign states; a future in which the war ends, and a new chapter begins,” Obama said Tuesday.  Nixon might have said something similar on that imaginary 1972 visit. Except, of course, everyone knew that Vietnam’s future would not be defined by an agreement between Washington and Thieu, as much as by the one signed in Paris, two months after Nixon’s reelection, between Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho, representing the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (a.k.a. “North Vietnam”). Even that deal collapsed, of course, with the DRV and its supporters in the south finishing off the Thieu regime 19 months after U.S. troops withdrew.

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DTN News - OBAMA IN AFGHANISTAN: Taliban Claims The Attack Was A Response To U.S. President Barack Obama's Surprise Visit To Afghanistan - NATO Forces Investigate At The Scene Of Attack

DTN News - OBAMA IN AFGHANISTAN: Taliban Claims The Attack Was A Response To U.S. President Barack Obama's Surprise Visit To Afghanistan - NATO Forces Investigate At The Scene Of Attack

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 2, 2012: Soldiers part of the NATO forces investigate the scene at the scene of a militant attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 2, 2012. A suicide car bomber and Taliban militants disguised in burqas attacked a compound housing hundreds of foreigners in the Afghan capital on Wednesday, officials and witnesses said. 

The Taliban said the attack was a response to President Barack Obama's surprise visit just hours earlier.

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DTN News - OBAMA IN AFGHANISTAN: Taliban Claims The Attack Was A Response To U.S. President Barack Obama's Surprise Visit To Afghanistan - NATO Soldiers Talk Among Themselves

DTN News - OBAMA IN AFGHANISTAN: Taliban Claims The Attack Was A Response To U.S. President Barack Obama's Surprise Visit To Afghanistan - NATO Soldiers Talk Among Themselves

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 2, 2012: NATO soldiers talk among themselves as smoke comes out of a compound at the scene of militants' attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 2, 2012. 

A suicide car bomber and Taliban militants disguised in burqas attacked the compound housing hundreds of foreigners in the Afghan capital on Wednesday, officials and witnesses said.

The Taliban said the attack was a response to U.S. President Barack Obama's surprise visit just hours earlier.

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DTN News - OBAMA IN AFGHANISTAN: President Barack Obama Greets Troops At Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan

DTN News - OBAMA IN AFGHANISTAN: President Barack Obama Greets Troops At Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 1, 2012:  Secret Service agents stand watch as President Barack Obama greets troops at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 2, 2012. 

President Barack Obama and President Hamid Karzai signed the Strategic Partnership Agreement at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, May 2, 2012. The deal insures American military and financial support for the Afghan people for at least a decade beyond 2014, the deadline for most foreign combat forces to withdraw.

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DTN News - OBAMA IN AFGHANISTAN: President Barack Obama With Afghan President Hamid Karzai Signed Strategic Partnership Agreement In Kabul

DTN News - OBAMA IN AFGHANISTAN: President Barack Obama With Afghan President Hamid Karzai Signed Strategic Partnership Agreement In Kabul

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 1, 2012: U.S. President Barack Obama puts his arm on Afghan President Hamid Karzai after they signed the Strategic Partnership Agreement at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, May 2, 2012. 

The deal insures American military and financial support for the Afghan people for at least a decade beyond 2014, the deadline for most foreign combat forces to withdraw.

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DTN News - AFGHAN WAR NEWS: Karzai Speaks With family Members Of Civilians Killed By U.S. Soldier In Kandahar Last Week

DTN News - AFGHAN WAR NEWS: Karzai Speaks With family Members Of Civilians Killed By U.S. Soldier In Kandahar Last Week

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada – March 18, 2012: Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai speaks during a meeting with the family members of civilians killed by U.S. soldier in Kandahar last week at the presidential palace in Kabul March 16, 2012. 

Karzai on Friday accused the United States of failing to fully cooperate with an investigation into the massacre of 16 Afghan villagers by a U.S. soldier.

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