Pakistan has issued a muted official reaction to this week's signing of a strategic pact between neighboring Afghanistan and India.

巴基斯坦对本周对两个邻国阿富汗与印度之间签订的战略条约做出了低调反应。

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The US and Afghanistan are close to signing a strategic pact that would allow thousands of US troops to remain in the country until 2024, The Daily Telegraph of London reported Saturday.

据英国《每日电讯报》20日披露，美国和阿富汗即将达成一项战略协议，该协议将允许数千名美国士兵在阿富汗驻扎至2024年。

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The new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) would replace a 1991 pact that expired in December.

新的削减战略武器条约将取代在12月过期的1991年的协议。

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Bush said he also believed that the U.S. would develop a bilateral strategic agreement relationship with Iraq, a pact now under negotiation.

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Ray Odierno, the top U.S. military official in Iraq, issued a statement welcoming the passage of the security pact and the strategic framework agreement -- which covers a wide range of bilateral cooperation efforts.

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He signed a Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (or START agreement) that cut the permissible number of strategic warheads to a quarter of what had been allowed in the original 1991 START pact.

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