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Making a speech at a recent press conference in the State Department, Ms. Rice stressed out the importance of the ministerial meeting in Brussels and highlighted two aspects that would be put on its agenda – Afghanistan and the NATO membership of Georgia and Ukraine. The USA insists Europe should enlarge its contingents in Afghanistan. Moreover, the US administration wants Europe to concentrate its military activity in the dangerous areas of the country, where US and British troops currently carry the main burden of the war.
If Europe does not cooperate with Washington at this point, it will become one of the first apples of discord between the Old World and the new US president, who will ask the same from Europe