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US still open to signing BSA: White House

US still open to signing BSA: White House

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14 Mar 2014 - 10:12
US still open to signing BSA: White House
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14 Mar 2014 - 10:12

WASHINGTON (Pajhwok): The United States is still open to signing bilateral security agreement (BSA) with Afghanistan operation,” Carney said.
That is not possible without BSA signed by the Afghan government, he added.
“I think our views on this reflect what General (Joseph) Dunford said, which is that in order to maintain what we think would be the best policy option — a limited troop presence there to focus on counterterrorism and training and support of the Afghan forces — we need a BSA,” he added.
“We negotiated one with the Afghan government and had as a target date for its signing the end of last year in keeping with what the Afghan government had identified as the timeframe,” he added.
He noted that “we have made clear, as the days and weeks have passed in 2014, that the further we move into this year, the more our ability to — even if we were to sign a BSA later in the year, it would — the later we sign it, the more constrained our presence and mission would be beyond 2014.”
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