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KABUL: The international community with more than 100,000 troops in Afghanistan, does not have an exit strategy and will stay committed for the long term, Sweden’s foreign minister said on Tuesday.

“There is no time line, it is clear that no one has an exit strategy, because we have a transition strategy,” Carl Bildt, whose country is currently president of the European Union, told AFP. “It is vital that the Afghans have the confidence that we will stay,” he said.

The emphasis of the foreign presence was shifting, he said, from military action against the Taliban-liked insurgents, to training the Afghan security forces and helping build a civilian governance infrastructure.

“There has to be a move from a military-heavy presence to a civilian-heavy presence,” he said. “One of the big problems in Afghanistan in the last 30 to 40 years is that there have been too many exit strategies and not enough transition strategies,” Bildt said before leaving Kabul after a two-day visit to Afghanistan.

The US and Nato commander in Afghanistan on Monday submitted a long-awaited review into the eight-year war, calling for a revised strategy to defeat the Taliban and reverse the “serious” situation in the country. Bildt said the emphasis of the new strategy was on “civilian, political, economic resources” to build “rule of law, governance and anti-corruption mechanisms”.
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