The United States is "not satisfied" with the level of support it is receiving from NATO members in Afghanistan, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday ahead of a meeting of NATO defence ministers. "I am not satisfied that an alliance with members who have over two million soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen cannot find the modest additional resources that have been committed for Afghanistan," Gates told journalists during a trip to Kiev. The resources in question were committed at a NATO summit in Riga in November 2006, he said. "I intend to pursue this in our meetings in the Netherlands" on Wednesday and Thursday with NATO defence ministers. "This will be clearly the principal theme" of the meeting, he said.
Gates was speaking after a meeting in Kiev of the Southeastern European Defence Ministerial, a body made up of the defence ministers of several country's in the region.