Key takeaways from Stoltenberg's press conference:
* NATO doesn't see any "imminent threat against any NATO ally."
* The Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan will continue beyond 2016.
From our news desk:
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the alliance will continue training Afghan security forces into 2017 and fund them until 2020.
"Afghanistan does not stand alone and we are committed for the long haul," he told a news conference on the second day of a NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland.
Stoltenberg stressed that the Resolute Support Mission is a noncombat mission aimed at training, assisting, and advising the Afghan military and police.
"I think it is extremely important to understand that we ended our combat mission at the end of 2014 because we, over several years, had built up a national Afghan army and security forces able to take full responsibility for security in their own country," he said.
Some 12,000 NATO and U.S. troops are currently involved in the training mission.
Stoltenberg added that NATO allies have promised the United States they will contribute around $1 billion a year over the next three years to help fund Afghan security forces.
"We now have in place the $1 billion of non-U.S. commitments," he said.
And on Russia:
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the alliance stands united in its policy of "strong defense and constructive dialogue" toward Russia.
"The alliance is united, we stand together in our approach," he told a news conference on July 9, the second day of a two-day NATO summit in Warsaw.
Stoltenberg said this was the "main message" from a meeting NATO leaders held late on July 8 to discuss Russia's increasingly assertive stance.
"I am very pleased to see how strong that message is in NATO and how united we are behind that message," he said.
Asked whether NATO viewed Russia as a threat, Stoltenberg said the alliance doesn't see any "imminent threat against any NATO ally" but does not enjoy the "strategic partnership" with Russia that he said NATO has sought to develop since the end of the Cold War.
"We are in a new situation which is different to anything else we have experienced before," he said.
His comments come one day after NATO leaders endorsed a major new deployment of armed forces to Eastern Europe, the largest such move by the alliance since the end of the Cold War.
Stoltenberg said in July 8 that the move was a response to Russia's support of separatists in eastern Ukraine and its illegal annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.
The four multinational battalions of up to 1,000 troops will be led by Canada, Germany, Britain, and the United States. They will be stationed in Poland and the three Baltic states.
The NATO-Russia Council, which was set up in the 1990s to address Russia’s misgivings about the alliance expanding eastward, is to meet next week for the second time this year. The council was suspended in 2014 following Russia’s seizure of Crimea.
Based on Reuters and live streaming from the NATO summit in Warsaw.
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