The Foreign Ministers from the Allied countries agreed, on Wednesday, 1 December, at their meeting in Riga, on the lessons to be drawn from the situation in Afghanistan in order to improve the way NATO plans and conducts future crisis management operations at both political and military levels.
While 20 years of operations in Afghanistan have ensured that no terrorist attacks planned on Afghan soil were carried out in any of the Allied countries, the ambition to build a stable country has...