Bosnia, Croatia and Montenegro are considering a joint engagement with the Nato-led forces in Afghanistan, Croat Foreign Minister Gordan Jandrokovic said here on Friday. Foreign ministers of Albania, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, Macedonia and Montenegro "reviewed possibilities of a joint engagement ... in Afghanistan," at a meeting, Jandrokovic told journalists.
"One of the possibilities was that Bosnia-Hercegovina and Montenegro send their (military) instructors who would along with Croatian instructors, already in Kabul, help in education of Afghan forces," he added. Jandrokovic was speaking after a meeting of the foreign ministers from the five Adriatic Charter countries at Dubrovnik, a resort on the southern Adriatic coast. Also present as an observer was their Kosovo counterpart Skender Hyseni.
The five countries signed the Adriatic Charter with the United States in 2003, in a bid to facilitate the integration of the southern European countries into the transatlantic Nato alliance. Albania and Croatia joined Nato in 2009, but Macedonia's membership bid has been blocked by Greece. Greece and Macedonia have been at loggerheads over the right to use the name Macedonia - which is shared by a northern Greek province - ever since the break-up of Yugoslavia in 1991.
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