Senior administration official-1: Today is an important day for our ongoing effort in Afghanistan for two purposes. In Bagram, last year, President Barack Obama laid out a strategy for Afghanistan and how we could responsibly and successfully end the war there that had five pillars. And two key pillars of that strategy were the ongoing transition of security responsibility to the Afghans and the pursuit of a political process that allows Afghans to reconcile with one another after so many years of war.Earlier today, there was an important milestone on the security transition as we fulfiled the milestone that was agreed to at the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) summit in Chicago to transition responsibility for security to an Afghan lead across the country so that Afghan National Security Forces are in the lead for the responsibility of security, with our full support, of course.  And this is a key milestone on the way to the complete transition of responsibility for security

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