All nations agree that ISAF and OEF need to work more closely together, and that when NATO takes over operations throughout the country that there must be unity of command.

The allies are looking carefully at the relationship.

NATO has been supporting Haj pilgrimage for those Afghans who wish to go to Saudi Arabia. The Alliance has played a role in helping transport concerning their security as they leave and come back to Afghanistan.

Before mid-October it will be up and running.

They will not take a lead role in crop burning.

This (expansion) is a very complicated thing to do in terms of force generation and actually setting up the operation.

The United States has requested NATO relief support in the form of food supplies. NATO Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Center (EADRCC) is coordinating responses to this request by allies and NATO partners,

We are very much focused ... on what more we can do.

The Alliance aims to achieve the same results in 2006.

NATO has not received any formal request from the U.N. or from the African Union for anything beyond what it is currently doing. NATO is continuing to do what it has been doing for many months, and that is airlifting in and out African Union battalions ... as well as providing training.