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Credit: Reuters/Tim Wimborne TALLINN (Reuters) - NATO ministers Friday agreed conditions to start handing over security responsibility in Afghanistan to Afghan forces this year, but the alliance said this would not mean a rush to leave the country. World NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said transition would be a gradual process based on conditions, not a timetable, and stressed the need for allies to provide more personnel to train Afghan forces so they can take over security themselves. "It will not be a pullout. It will not be a run for the exit," Rasmussen told a news conference after a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in the Estonian capital Tallinn. The Afghan government's past failure to deliver services and security in areas from which the Taliban have been pushed out is seen as a major threat to NATO strategy and the aim of cutting a foreign troop commitment that now exceeds 120,000. "What will happen is that we hand over lead responsibility to the Afghans and our soldiers will then move into a more supportive role, but I foresee that the Afghan security forces will need our supportive assistance for quite some time," Rasmussen said. "So it will be a gradual process." NATO's 28 members backed a plan by U.S. President Barack Obama last year for a substantial boost in international troop numbers to allow time to train up Afghan forces. Obama's aim was to allow Washington to begin pulling some U.S. troops out of the country by July 2011, a goal that has always appeared ambitious given a widening Taliban insurgency. MORE TRAINERS NEEDED Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Washington has been pleased by its allies' promises of more troops and trainers and she was convinced with the right support Afghan forces were "perfectly capable" of defending the country against insurgents. "Does that mean that it will be smooth sailing? I don't think so," Clinton told reporters. "Look at Iraq. The Iraq military is certainly proving itself to be a capable force inside Iraq yet it is unfortunately too easy for cowardly terrorists to set off bombs." "So I don't think we should expect the Afghans to meet an impossible standard, but what we can expect and what we are working toward achieving, is an Afghan national security force -- military and police -- that is able to protect the people and create a sense of confidence in their capacity," she said. Rasmussen went into the NATO meeting saying the alliance was still short of 450 personnel to train Afghan security forces. NATO officials have said that if Afghan security forces are to reach a target of 300,000 personnel in 2011, at least 1,000 more trainers will be needed on top of Rasmussen's figures. Rasmussen said ministers had agreed on conditions that have to be met to allow a "sustainable but irreversible" transition that NATO aims to start in more secure districts this year. "We will hand over responsibility when the Afghans are actually capable to take responsibility," he said. "We will stay in Afghanistan as long as it takes to finish our job, but of course, it's not forever." Mark Sedwill, NATO's senior civilian representative for Afghanistan, told reporters the alliance hoped to name some of the provinces where it could start to handover to the Afghans at the alliance's Lisbon summit in November. He said the conditions for a handover included both the capacity of Afghan security forces and the evolution of governance and economic development in the country. "It's far from certain. It's still very challenging and we will only really start to know toward the end of this year whether we are on track," he told reporters. At a conference this week, U.S. and Afghan officials listed dozens of obstacles to boosting Afghan capabilities and the credibility of a government seen as inefficient and corrupt. They highlighted particular problems with the performance of the police, only about 30 percent of whom have any training. NATO has also struggled to persuade countries to provide funds to run the Afghan army. As of mid-April, only 274 million euros ($368 million) had been pledged or contributed to a trust fund for this purpose, against an annual requirement estimated at $1.8 billion (1.3 billion euros). (Editing by Jon Hemming) World Comments See All Comments (1) | Post Comment Apr 23, 2010 8:46am EDT I just wonder when NATO is going to get involved with Mexico and the problems with the Drug war killings..The cartels down there are not much different than the al-cada or the taliban.. 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