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Asked if the Prime Minister was laying claim to the conference, the Prime Minister's Spokesman told the assembled press that there were 192 countries present.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin welcomed the NATO secretary-general to Moscow to discuss common interests but balked on aid to Afghanistan .

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said he was hopeful that Russia and NATO would have 'more points of contact' in the future in order to solve common problems together and act more affectively.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's 12th Secretary General, is to pay his first official visit to Moscow on December 15.

Frustration is growing in NATO at what it regards as Russia's lukewarm support for its mission in Afghanistan, senior diplomats said Friday, days before the military alliance's chief visits Moscow.

NATO plans to ask Russia to contribute more to the escalating Afghan war. And, Russian officials aren't commenting on the possibility.

NATO wants Russia to help the escalating war effort in Afghanistan by donating more weapons - including AK-47 assault rifles, grenade launchers, field artillery and armored vehicles - and by providing other military assistance to the expanding Afghan army, officials said Friday.

European troop pledges totalling around 5,000 are short of figure the US is believed to be asking for in support of its Afghan surge US soldiers in Afghanistan, where they will soon be joined by 30,000 additional troops.

Diplomats, world leaders and United Nations officials warned Monday that the Copenhagen climate talks would be the best and possibly last chance to develop a global solution to global warming.

Germany's parliament has voted to extend the mandate of troops serving in Afghanistan for one year but did not lift the upper limit of soldiers able to be sent there, currently set at 4,500. The Bundestag lower house voted 445 deputies out of 594 in favour of the motion, which will ensure that German troops stay in the country until at least ...

NATO attaches "great importance to the conduct of free and fair local elections in Georgia in spring 2010" and encourages Georgia "to deepen reforms" related to media freedom and the rule of law, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the alliance's secretary general said.

Britain was first off the mark, promising to send 500 extra soldiers even before Obama made his long-awaited policy speech on Tuesday in which he said he would send 30,000 more American troops, Reuters reported.

As political and military leaders across the globe pondered President Obama's announcement of his Afghan strategy, European allies offered a mixed response on Wednesday, with some of the biggest contributors to the NATO coalition withholding promises of immediate troop reinforcements.

Foreign Secretary David Miliband has stepped up calls for Nato allies to send more troops to Afghanistan after US President Barack Obama finally announced his long-awaited 30,000-strong troop surge.

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The White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Obama would be making several calls to world leaders on Tuesday and Wednesday to brief them on the new Af-Pak policy, which would be announced in his address to the nation on Tuesday.

The Commonwealth went into this Heads of Government meeting under attack as being irrelevant to - or even unknown by - many of its citizens, particularly the young.

Australia Prime Minister Kevin Michael Rudd is anticipating a strong and binding agreement on climate change during crucial talks in Copenhagen next week, arising out of the consensus arrived at by Commonwealth leaders in Port of Spain on the issue.

Noting that the world was on the move to tackle climate change, UN Chief Ban Ki-moon has acknowledged India's commitment to use renewable energy in its effort to cut down carbon emissions.

NATO's secretary-general is confident that "all allies will step up to the plate" and provide more soldiers to the fight in Afghanistan after President Barack Obama announces his decision next week on an extra U.S. troop deployment.