FACTBOX-Foreign security aid to Afghanistan

This piece is part of a package of security and risk stories
and factboxes before Jan 28 meetings in London to discuss
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Jan 22 (Reuters) - Continued instability in Afghanistan is
expected to keep pressure on donors for sustained spending on
aid with counter-terrorism, police and border security, over and
above the cost of military operations.

Following are some facts on this spending ahead of a Jan.28
conference of Afghanistan's main overseas partners. Britain says
the meeting is intended to chart a path to greater Afghan
responsibility for its own security.

UNITED STATES

Overt U.S. support for its allies' counter-terrorism efforts
is drawn from various accounts including State Department
programmes such as Foreign Military Financing (FMF),
International Military Training and Education (IMET),
International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL), and
Non-Proliferation, Anti-Terrorism, Demining, and Related (NADR).

These funds for Afghanistan are as follows:

($ in millions)

IMET

2009 - 21.4

2008 - 1.7

2007 - 1.2

NADR

2009 - 48.6

2008 - 28.1

2007 - 36.6

INL

2009 - 484

2008 - 307.6

2007 - 251.7

The Defense Department has a Regional Defense
CounterTerrorism Fellowship Program (CTFP) for Afghanistan,
worth $543,020 from 2004-FY2008.

Of the $58 billion pledged in overall aid to Afghanistan by
donors since 2002, U.S. assistance represents about 57 per cent.
The bulk of U.S. aid is security-related.

Since 2001, about half of total U.S. assistance has gone to
the Afghan Security Forces Fund, the account supporting the
training and equipping of Afghan forces. Under this fund the
United States provides equipment, training and mentoring to
police and army forces and works with the Interior and Defense
ministries to ensure they can organise and lead these forces.

There may be covert support which is not made public.

JAPAN

Japan has funded several projects relating to security, with
a total budget of $360 million between 2001-Nov. 2009.

-- DDR (Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration) -
$149 million

-- De-mining - $43 million

-- Counter-narcotics/border management - $25 million

-- Police Reform - $139 million

-- Ammunition management - $4 million

Counter-terrorism, police and security-related support to
Afghanistan is not directly identifiable from many donor
governments' published accounts.

EUROPEAN UNION

EU institutions and member states contributed 8 billion
euros ($11.28 billion) for Afghanistan for the 2002-10 period,
including 1.3 billion for police and justice sector reform,
alternative livelihoods, health and border management.

-- The EU Afghan police mission, EUPOL, has authorised
strength of 400 personnel, but has never reached that. As of Nov
22, it stood at 285 from 21 EU states plus Canada, Croatia, New
zealand and Norway, and 161 local staff.

-- The police mission, deployed in 17 provinces, has an 81.4
million euro budget for the Dec 2008 to May 2010 period.

-- The EU is the largest contributor to law and order trust
fund to pay running costs of Afghan police, into which it has
paid 200 million euros.

GERMANY

German funding for the Afghan police has risen from 12
million euros in 2002 to 43.2 million euros in 2009. Germany has
provided basic or further training to 24,000 police, so far.

NATO

A NATO-Afghan Army Trust Fund meant to finance training,
purchases of equipment and the costs of importing and installing
that equipment requires $1.8 million in funding annually, based
on army manpower of 134,000. The fund is separate from similar
support to the military provided by the United States which
totalled $7 billion in 2009.

The following support is listed by the NATO Equipment
Donation Programme created in 2006 to support the Afghan
National Security Forces.

Bulgaria - 50 mortars, 21 million rounds of small arms
ammunition (of different types) and 500 pairs of binoculars

Canada - 2,500 small arms, 6 million rounds of ammunition
and equipment

Czech Republic - 12 helicopters (attack and utility)

Estonia - 4,300 small arms and 5 million rounds of
ammunition

Finland - 1,400 field telephones and 60 generators

France - personal equipment

Germany - clothing and equipment

Hungary - 21,000 small arms and 150,000 rounds of ammunition

Lithuania - about 4 million rounds of small arms ammunition

Luxembourg - 2,000 body armour kits, 2,000 helmets

Montenegro - 1,600 small arms and 250,000 rounds of
ammunition

NATO - heaters, cargo nets

Norway - 100 field weapons, 100 mortars and 400,000 rounds
of ammunition (of different types)

Poland - uniforms; 4 million rounds of ammunition

Slovenia - 60 mortars, 10,000 small arms and 2.2 million
rounds of ammunition, compact bridge

Switzerland - 3 fire trucks, spares, medical equipment

Turkey - 24 howitzers, ammunition, clothing equipment and
academy supplies

In a speech on 5 Nov. British International Development
Secretary Douglas Alexander said the international community had
together trained over 94,000 Afghan troops, and 92,000 Afghan
police.
(Sources: Reuters, U.S. Congressional Research Service, EU
delegation in Kabul website, Japan Foreign ministry, German
government, British Ministry of Defence, Department for
International Development)
(Compiled by William Maclean in London, Isabel Reynolds in
Tokyo, David Graham in Bonn and David Brunnstrom in Brussels,
Editing by Ralph Boulton)