NATO Summit News Roundup

Day Two: Formal Agreement on NATO-Afghan Transition Plan

The NATO supply line issue remained at the tip of President Obama’s tongue on the second day of the summit. Within the first minute of his opening remarks, he made a slightly veiled reference to them. “I want to welcome the presence of President Karzai, as well as officials from central Asia and Russia, nations that have an important perspective and that continue to provide critical transit for ISAF supplies,” he said, referring to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.
Despite the momentary diversion, it was clear that Monday was all about the Afghan transition plan. Later in his opening remarks, Mr. Obama said, “The region and the world have a profound interest in an Afghanistan that is stable, that is secure and is not a source of attacks on other nations.”

Doug Mills/The New York TimesPresident Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, right, and  Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the NATO secretary general, left, at the International Security Assistance Force meeting on Afghanistan in Chicago on Monday.