Georgia, Tbilisi, June 9 / Trend, N. Kirtskhalia /
Georgian Defense Minister Bacho Akhalaia will attend a ministerial meeting in Brussels for the heads of the NATO member countries' military departments. Akhalaia will hold several meetings with his counterparts from NATO, the Georgian Defense Ministry told Trend.
Today Akhalaia will meet with the NATO International Security Assistance Force Commander General David Petraeus.
Today the ministerial will sum up a ten-year war in Afghanistan.
In July the United States, which has a contingent of one-hundred-thousand-strong in Afghanistan, will be withdrawing troops from the country, though the contingent to be withdrawn during the first stage remains undetermined. According to NATO's plan, all troops of allies will leave the country by 2014, and security control will be fully transferred to the Afghan authorities.
The status of the war against the Taliban and other extremist groups after the murder of the leader of al-Qaeda Osama bin Laden by U.S. intelligence services will also be the subject of discussions of the heads of NATO member countries' military departments.
