Pakistan supply routes for NATO clearly opens

After months of blocking Pakistan are apparently the supply routes for NATO again. The announced U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Previously, she apologized to the government in Islamabad, Pakistani soldiers killed in the border area. The Pakistani government has agreed, in the words of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to reopen the supply routes for NATO troops in Afghanistan. At the same time, Clinton apologized on Tuesday for a NATO airstrike in the Pakistani-Afghan border area, was killed in the last year, 24 Pakistani soldiers. The government in Islamabad had blocked the important transport route for the air raid in November. She had apologized in a telephone conversation with her Pakistani counterpart, Hina Rabbani Khar, told Clinton in a written statement in Washington. Both sides have acknowledged mistakes that had led to deaths, said Clinton. Khar assured her then the opening of supply routes. Is also a fee for their use not exist. The death of 24 Pakistani soldiers by a NATO air strike last November, had exacerbated the already tense relations between Washington and Islamabad continue. The closure caused for the Western troops serious problems , costing the U.S. alone, according to the Reuters news agency each month one hundred million U.S. dollars in addition.

NATO representatives give their skepticism

Although Pakistan opened shortly before the NATO summit in May for a few trucks short of the military alliance the border, but demanded $ 5,000 for each truck fees.The United States showed why Pakistan at the summit pointedly refused the cold shoulder, President Barack Obama even a four-eye meeting with the head of state who traveled from Islamabad, Asif Ali Zardari. How sound the solution found, it must prove to the opinion of NATO representatives have.Already in the spring, the Pakistani defense minister had shown very optimistic that the blockade would be terminated.In his announcement, but in the end came to nothing, since the Parliament an unconditional apology includes an admission of guilt for the border incident in November demanded. Whether this requirement is satisfied with the current Clinton's apology will bear fruit in the coming weeks, a senior NATO-man. Pakistan's government confirmed the agreement does not directly, the new Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf said before representatives of government and the military before Clinton's statement, however: "The continued closure of the supply routes not only damages our relationship with the United States, but also among the 49 other member states of NATO and ISAF. " The Taliban in Pakistan announced immediately to attack supply vehicles for the international troops. Federal Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere (CDU) had said on Tuesday during a visit to the base in Kunduz, he was no longer confident that the border crossings into Pakistan would soon open again.