Posted on 02/08/2010 8:48:30 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
As DD India reports, NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Sunday said that New Delhi had a "stake" in Afghanistan as he sought "a stronger, more inclusive security coalition" of countries like India, China and Russia to tackle terrorism, cyber attacks, energy cut-offs, piracy and climate change.
Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Rasmussen said that a key lesson of the alliance's troubled mission in Afghanistan is that NATO "needs an entirely new compact between all the actors on the security stage."
"India has a stake in Afghan stability. China too. And both could help further develop and rebuild Afghanistan. The same goes for Russia. Basically, Russia shares our security concerns," Rasmussen was quoted as saying by the news agency.
He noted that in an age of global insecurity, the threats to Europe and North America, including terrorism, cyber attacks, energy cut-offs, piracy and climate change, come from far beyond NATO borders.
Thus, Rasmussen said that NATO should become "the hub of a network of security partnerships and a center for consultation on international security issues" with countries such as India and China.
In order to tackle these threats effectively, NATO should create "a stronger, more inclusive security coalition, with NATO as the hub," he said.
"Against such threats, the approaches of a bygone era simply no longer work. Static, heavy metal armies are not going to impress terrorists, pirates or computer hackers," he said.
"Our success in preserving our shared security, including through NATO, increasingly depends on how well we cooperate with others."
"We must take NATO's transformation to a new level by connecting the Alliance with the broader international system in entirely new ways," Rassmussen said.
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Ah, that beastly climate change! Now we not only have nuclear bombs, we have weather bombs.
Sure and pakis will just let em waltz around
As things stand at this point, the Pakistanis pretty much have their hands full with the multiple insurgencies raging all over that country.
Yes and their military has worned that any Indian involvment in Afganistan will not be looked well upon.
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