More foreign troops are needed to help secure the country, and to train its army and police forces, UN Special Envoy to Afghanistan Kai Eide said a NATO Defense Ministers meeting in Bratislava (Slovakia) today, Voice of America informs Oct. 23.

“General Stanley McChrystal is asking for tens of thousands more troops, although the exact figure is secret. Ambassador Eide endorsed the idea, but would not be specific on how many more foreign troops he thinks Afghanistan needs.

‘I do believe that additional international troops are required,’ Eide said. ‘I believe that this can not be a U.S. only enterprise. There has to be contribution from other troop contributors, and in particular Europeans’,” VOA reads.