In his speech in Atlanta, Georgia to the Disabled Veterans of America, Mr.Obama said the United States is on schedule to fulfill a pledge to transfer security responsibilities to Iraqi forces.
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The Secretary-General added that our re-shaped relationship must be built on a gradual but steady transferofresponsibilities and authority from international stakeholders to Afghan institutions.
"We would have preferred in particular that this text set more binding and shorter deadlines for the transferofresponsibilities and the political transition, " Mr de Villepin said on the sidelines of an EU summit in Brussels.