Presiden
Iran Hassan Rouhani (R) dan rakan sejawatannya dari Afghanistan Hamid Karzai (dariKiri)
mendengar lagu kebangsaan mereka dalam satu majlis menyambut di Teheran
Saadabad Palace pada 8 Disember 2013. (Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (R) and
his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai (L) listen to their national anthems during
a welcoming ceremony at Tehran's Saadabad Palace on December 8, 2013. (AFP
Photo / Behrouz Mehri – think IN pictures @1WORLD Community)
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berat tentang kehadiran tentera asing di rantau ini, Iran dan Afghanistan telah
memutuskan untuk menandatangani perjanjian kerjasama bersama untuk meningkatkan
“keselamatan serantau” di tengah-tengah
usaha Amerika untuk memaksa presiden Afghanistan untuk mengelak pakatan
keselamatan dengan Washington.
“Afghanistan
bersetuju dengan persahabatan jangka panjang dan kerjasama pakatan dengan Iran,”
kata jurucakap Presiden Karzai Aimal Faizi berkata, seperti yang dipetik oleh
Reuters. “Perjanjian itu akan untuk jangka masa panjang politik, keselamatan,
kerjasama ekonomi dan budaya, keamanan serantau.”
Presiden
Afghanistan Hamid Karzai mencapai perjanjian dengan Presiden Iran Hassan
Rouhani di Tehran pada hari Ahad. Ini kenyataan bersama yang dikeluarkan
selepas rundingan menetapkan bahawa menteri-menteri luar kedua-dua daerah telah
ditugaskan untuk merangka topik-topik seperti pakatan, IRNA melaporkan.
Pada
mesyuarat itu Rouhani menyuarakan dgn kuat tentangan Iran untuk kehadiran asing
dan kesan ketidakstabilan untuk rantau ini.
“Kita
bimbang tentang ketegangan yang timbul daripada kehadiran kuasa-kuasa asing di
rantau ini, mempercayai bahawa semua tentera asing harus keluar dari rantau ini
dan tugas menjamin keselamatan Afghanistan harus diamanahkan kepada orang-orang
di negara ini,” Rouhani dipetik oleh IRNA sebagai berkata.
Presiden
Iran mengulangi mesej di halaman twitter beliau selepas mesyuarat itu.
Bagi
beliau Karzai berkata kerajaan Afghanistan berminat untuk menandatangani
perjanjian itu dengan Republik Islam. Presiden Afghanistan juga mengucapkan
tahniah kepada rakan sejawatannya kepada mendapatkan satu perjanjian nuklear di
Geneva yang dimatikan dekad lama ketegangan.
Sementara
itu Setiausaha Pertahanan Amerika Syarikat Chuck Hagel berkata bahawa beliau
menyokong kuasa NATO di Afghanistan selepas 2014, sebagai Washington dan Kabul
meneruskan rundingan kepada mendapatkan Perjanjian Keselamatan 2 Hala (BSA)
yang akan membolehkan tentera asing untuk tinggal di negara yang lalu tarikh
akhir.
“Saya
percaya terdapat peranan untuk rakan gabungan kami dan Amerika Syarikat, tetapi
yang bergantung kepada rakyat Afghanistan,” Hagel memberitahu tentera Amerika
Syarikat di Afghanistan pada hari Ahad. “Jika rakyat Afghanistan mahu
meneruskan hubungan itu, maka kita akan.”
Hagel
tidak memenuhi Karzai semasa lawatan ke pangkalan Amerika Syarikat di
Afgha-nistan hujung minggu ini, tetapi beliau yakin pakatan baru antara Amerika
Syarikat dan Afghanistan akan ditandatangani. “Saya mempunyai harapan bahawa
BSA akan mendapatkan ditandatangani,” katanya pada berhenti di Kandahar kerana
beliau diakui “ketidakpastian mengenai apa yang berlaku seterusnya.”
Afghanistan
agrees on regional security pact with Iran
Concerned
about the presence of foreign forces in the region, Iran and Afghanistan have
decided to sign a joint cooperation agreement to boost “regional security” amid
American efforts to force the Afghan president to seal a security pact with
Washington.
“Afghanistan
agreed on a long-term friendship and cooperation pact with Iran,” President’s
Karzai's spokesman Aimal Faizi said, as quoted by Reuters. “The pact will be
for long-term political, security, economic and cultural cooperation, regional
peace.”
Afghan
President Hamid Karzai reached the deal with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani
in Tehran on Sunday. The joint communique issued after the talks stipulates
that foreign ministers of both counties were assigned to draw up the topics of
such a pact, IRNA reports
At
the meeting Rouhani voiced Iran’s strong opposition to foreign presence and its
destabilizing effect for the region.
“We
are concerned about tension arising out of the presence of foreign forces in
the region, believing that all foreign forces should get out of the region and
the task of guaranteeing Afghan security should be entrusted to the country’s
people,” Rouhani was cited by IRNA as saying.
The
Iranian President reiterated the message on his twitter page after the meeting.
For
his part Karzai said that the Afghan government is keen on signing the pact
with the Islamic Republic. The Afghan president also congratulated his
counterpart on securing a nuclear agreement in Geneva that defused decades-long
tensions.
Meanwhile
US defense secretary Chuck Hagel said that he supports a NATO force in
Afghanistan after 2014, as Washington and Kabul continue negotiations on
securing a Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) that will allow foreign forces to
stay in the country past the deadline.
“I
believe there is a role for our coalition partners and the United States, but
that depends on the Afghan people,” Hagel told US troops in Afghanistan on
Sunday. “If the people of Afghanistan want to continue that relationship, then
we will.”
Hagel
did not meet Karzai during his trip to US bases in Afghanistan this weekend,
but he is optimistic that the new pact between US and Afghanistan will be
signed. “I have hope that the BSA will get signed,” he said on a stop in
Kandahar as he acknowledged “uncertainty about what happens next.”
Setiausaha
Pertahanan Amerika Syarikat Chuck Hagel berdiri sebelah kenderaan MRAP selepas
berucap kepada pasukan tentera Amerika Syarikat, pada 8 Disember 2013 di
Kandahar. (U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel stands next to MRAP vehicles
after speaking to US troops, on December 8, 2013 in Kandahar. (AFP Photo/Pool
Mark Wilson – think IN pictures @1WORLD Community)
Setiausaha
pertahanan lakukan membincangkan perjanjian keselamatan dengan menteri Afghan
pertahanan, Bismillah Khan Mohammadi, yang memberi jaminan Hagel bahawa pakatan
itu akan ditandatangani dalam “tepat pada masanya.”
“Saya
tidak rasa tekanan yang datang dari Amerika Syarikat, atau lebih banyak tekanan,
akan membantu dalam memujuk Presiden Karzai untuk menandatangani perjanjian keselamatan
2 hala,” kata setiausaha pertahanan Sabtu.
Minggu
lalu, Karzai berkata bahawa dia tidak boleh menandatangani pakatan kesela-matan Amerika
Syarikat-Afghanistan sehingga April, walaupun kelulusan daripada Loya Jirga,
sebuah himpunan orang tua Afghanistan. Pada hari Sabtu Hagel memberi amaran
terhadap kelewatan itu dengan berkata terdapat “a cut-off point” di mana perjanjian itu akan dimansuhkan,
tetapi menambah beliau “tidak bersedia untuk memberikan tarikh yang itu.”
Ketua
NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen juga menggesa Karzai untuk menandatangani perjanjian
keselamatan dengan Washington menjelang akhir tahun ini.
“Biar
saya menjadi sangat jelas: Ia adalah pra-syarat bagi kehadiran kami di
Afghanistan selepas tahun 2014 bahawa rangka kerja undang-undang yang sesuai
adalah di tempat,” Rasmussen kepada pemberita pada taklimat di ibu pejabat NATO
di Brussels pada hari Selasa. Tanpa perjanjian “ia tidak mungkin untuk
menggunakan, kereta api, menasihati, membantu misi ke Afghanistan selepas 2014,”
kata Rasmussen.
Terdapat
kira-kira 80,000 NATO multinasional Bantuan Keselamatan Antarabangsa (ISAF)
tentera di Afghanistan, majoriti daripadanya adalah tentera Amerika Syarikat
yang kini berdiri untuk ditarik keluar pada akhir 2014. NATO merancang untuk
meninggalkan misi latihan sehingga 12,000 orang askar di Afghanistan selepas
2014 untuk membantu Afghanistan Tentera perjuangan pemberontak.
Amerika
Syarikat sebelum ini memberi amaran bahawa tentera akan meninggalkan menjelang
akhir tahun depan, yang dipanggil “pilihan sifar,” jika Afghanistan gagal untuk
menandatangani perjanjian itu. Dan jika rakyat Amerika meninggalkan sama sekali,
yang lain negara anggota ISAF tidak mungkin meninggalkan tentera mereka di
Afghanistan.
Walau
bagaimanapun, jurucakap Karzai Aimal Faizi berkata Sabtu amaran-amaran yang
sisipan lengkap “adalah lebih manuver taktikal untuk memberikan tekanan kepada
Presiden Karzai untuk menandatangani [pakatan itu] secepat mungkin.” “Kami
percaya tidak ada tarikh akhir,” kata Faizi .
The
defense secretary did discuss the security agreement with the Afghan defense
minister, Bismillah Khan Mohammadi, who reassured Hagel that the pact will be
signed in “a timely manner.”
“I
don’t think pressure coming from the United States, or more pressure, is going
to be helpful in persuading President Karzai to sign a bilateral security
agreement,” the defense secretary said Saturday.
Last
week, Karzai said that he may not sign the US-Afghan security pact until April,
despite approval from the Loya Jirga, an assembly of Afghan elders. On Saturday
Hagel warned against the delay, saying there was “a cut-off point” at which
time the pact would be scrapped, but adding he was “not prepared to give a date
on that.”
NATO
chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen also urged Karzai to sign a security agreement with
Washington by the year’s end.
“Let
me be very clear: It is a prerequisite for our presence in Afghanistan beyond
2014 that an appropriate legal framework is in place,” Rasmussen told reporters
at a briefing at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday. Without the deal “it
will not be possible to deploy, train, advise, assist the mission to
Afghanistan after 2014,” Rasmussen said.
There
are currently around 80,000 NATO multinational International Security
Assistance Force (ISAF) troops in Afghanistan, the majority of which are US
soldiers who now stand to be pulled out by the end of 2014. NATO is planning to
leave a training mission of up to 12,000 soldiers in Afghanistan after 2014 to
help Afghan Army fight insurgents.
The
US previously warned that forces would have to leave by the end of next year,
the so-called “zero option,” if Afghanistan fails to sign the pact. And if the
Americans leave altogether, the other ISAF member states are unlikely to leave
their troops in Afghanistan.
However,
Karzai's spokesman Aimal Faizi said Saturday the warnings of a complete pullout
“is more a tactical maneuver to put pressure on President Karzai to sign [the
pact] as soon as possible.” “We believe there's no deadline,” Faizi said.
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