Miliband criticizes US-led strategy in Afghanistan

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Miliband criticizes US-led strategy in Afghanistan

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David Miliband has strongly criticized the US-led strategy in Afghanistan.

13 April,2011 10:21 pm

The former foreign secretary of Britain proposed to hand over the substantial responsibility for building a political solution of the situation in Afghanistan to the United Nations.He said that the new strategy should be headed by a Muslim mediator who should be capable of negotiating with the Taliban as well as UN partners throughout the region.Miliband’s intervention has come in a time when senior NATO military figures in Afghanistan have predicted a rough summer of fighting ahead.Milibands criticism of the US-led campaign also marked a change from the supportive UK-US relationship he maintained as foreign secretary.