(Tolo News) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai Monday flew to Britian to discuss regional peace and stability with officials in London.
President Karzai is scheduled to hold talks with senior British officials mainly on security transition to Afghan lead and reconciliation with the Taliban.
His London trip is expected to last for three days.
UK is the second biggest troop contributing country to Nato-led counterinsurgency mission in Afghanistan.
Britain has around 10,000 troops in the country with most of them stationed in southern Helmand province, the spritual home of the Taliban.
Britain has lost 357 soldiers since starting its mission in the country.
Afghan army has 174,000 forces and the number will increase to more than 200,000 by the end of 2011 as they are to undertake full security responsibility by the end of 2014.
Meanwhile, President Barack Obama has adopted a resolution to push the administration towards a speedier withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, reports say.
Members of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) have recently passed the resolution at DNC’s annual winter meeting in Washington D.C. where hundreds of members from all parts of the United States had gathered to discuss finances, resolutions, and figure out re-election of Democrats in 2012.
The resolution, adopted Saturday, states that “the Democratic Party supports prioritising job creation and a swift withdrawal of US armed forces and military contractors in Afghanistan which must include a significant and sizeable reduction no later than July 2011.”
There are around 100,000 US forces in Afghanistan. The US has lost 1484 troops in the Afghan war since 2001.
