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Summary President Hamid Karzai stressed the importance of security transition to his forces by 2014.
He said the country would then be no longer a burden to the international community.After talks with US President Barack Obama at a NATO summit, Karzai also looked ahead to a future for Afghans without the pain of war, and thanked the United States for its sacrifices on the countrys behalf.Karzai said it was important to complete the security transition and withdrawal of foreign combat troops from Afghanistan that the summit will ratify.At that point, Afghanistan will be no longer a burden on the shoulders of our friends in the international community, on the shoulders of the United States and our other allies.Afghanistan, indeed Mr President, as you very rightly put it, is looking forward to an end to this war and a transformational decade in which Afghanistan will be working further for institution building and the development of sound governance in the country.
