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Julianne Smith, director of the CSIS Europe Program, was quoted by Reuters, "NATO Seeks New Afghan Push from Summit."
BRUSSELS, March 27 (Reuters) - NATO's leaders want next week's summit in Romania to resolve internal tensions over its mission in Afghanistan and commit more troops, signalling its willingness to stay the course there and defeat the Taliban.
"You're going to see some efforts to try and get around some of that finger-pointing in Bucharest," said Julianne Smith, Europe programme director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
"(But) we still have a number of members inside the alliance that have failed to transform their military to cope with expeditionary operations," she said.
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