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"Any effort to talk peace with the Taliban has to be led by the Afghans." That's according to NATO's Senior Civilian Representative to Afghanistan, Ambassador Simon Gass. In an interview with NATO TV he also spoke about the priorities for 2012 such as the continued transition of security to the Afghans. Working towards transition in Afghanistan Ambassador Simon Gass is NATO's Senior Civilian Representative to Afghanistan. In an interview with NATOchannel.tv 2 weeks into the new year, he talked about the priorities for 2012 and highlighted a number of different issues. "I think continuing with the transition process will be a very important part of what we will be doing," says Ambassador Gass. "We will certainly be maintaining the military campaign at a very high momentum, there is no sense of dropping off from that. At the same time I think working with international partners, we will both be hoping to see continuing improvements building on the successes that have already been reached in areas like governance and development where the government of Afghanistan is working increasingly hard to deliver services to its people, to make sure that governance is reaching all parts of Afghanistan," explains Gass. "That's a stiff task, but we will have a conference in Tokyo later this year to look at development aspects of Afghanistan and I think that will give us a real opportunity," he adds. The Enduring Partnership A NATO Summit will take place in Chicago this May. The meeting will be the first NATO Summit in the United States since 1999 when the Alliance celebrated its 50th anniversary in Washington. Ambassador Gass says it will be an important gathering. "I think that it will give us more definition about the relationship between NATO and Afghanistan beyond 2014 and I hope we will be able to achieve greater clarity on, for example, what the Afghan government would like NATO to do in Afghanistan after transition is finished, whether it's in a role of training and mentoring the Afghan security forces or whatever other functions NATO can assist Afghanistan with," he says. "I think it will also address issues like how the international community will help to financially support the Afghan security forces in the next few years. That's not simply a NATO responsibility, that's a responsibility for the whole international community but I hope at Chicago we will get some clarity on these questions." Increased capability The Afghan National Security forces (ANSF) are increasing in numbers. The target this year is to have 352,000 police and army by October this year. Ambassador Gass says the ANSF are going from strength to strength. "With the Afghan security forces, what we're seeing is not only increasing numbers of army and police but we are genuinely seeing greater capability," he says. "I've been looking in the last few days at the way in which Afghan security forces are increasingly, not only taking part in operations but are actually leading in conventional operations in Afghanistan. That is really growing at quite an impressive rate and that is because the capability is growing," he continues. Afghan-led peace process There's been a lot of talk in the press recently about making peace with the Taliban. Ambassador Gass says any negotiations over peace have to be Afghan-led. "If we are seeing signs of some movement which might lead to a political process then that must be a good thing," the Ambassador explains. He goes on, "but it's a good thing as long as it follows certain requirements. One requirement which has been made very clear by the government of Afghanistan, but also by key international partners such as the United States, is that this has to be an Afghan-led process and I'm confident that this will be an Afghan-led process because frankly a peace process led by foreigners, whoever they might be, would simply not deliver the sort of peace which Afghanistan needs, it has to be Afghan to Afghan," he explains. Positive outlook Simon Gass, a former British Ambassador to Iran, has been in the job 9 months. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ SUBSCRIBE to this channel http://bit.ly/NATOsubscribe SUBSCRIBE to NATO News http://bit.ly/NATONewsSubscribe SUBSCRIBE to NATO History http://bit.ly/NATOHistorySubscribe Connect with NATO online: Visit the Official NATO Homepage: http://bit.ly/NATOhomepage Find NATO on FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/NATOfacebook Follow @NATO on TWITTER: http://bit.ly/NATOtwitter Follow NATO on Instagram: http://bit.ly/NATOinstagram Find NATO on LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/NATOlinkedin Find NATO on Flickr: http://bit.ly/NATOflickr #NATO #Afghanistan

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