Speech

Sir William Patey on President Hamid Karzai's Afghanistan transition announcement

Statement from the British Ambassador to Afghanistan on the latest phase of the transition Process.

From:
Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street, and Sir William Patey, British Ambassador to Afghanistan
Published
5 December 2011
This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
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The ANSF is demonstrating that they are able to lead on security effectively and competently in tranche one areas. The latest phase of the ‘Transition Process’, announced 27 Nov by President Karzai, demonstrates continuing progress in the development of the Afghan National Security Forces.  Across Afghanistan, this announcement means that Afghan Forces will soon have lead responsibility for the security of almost half of the country’s population.

Published 5 December 2011