Belgıum Nato Defence Mınısters Meetıng

epa02196249 British defence secretary , Liam Fox ( L ) jokes with US defence secretary , Robert Gates ( R ) at the start of a North Atlantic Council ( NAC ) non-NATO ISAF Contributors meeting , at defence ministers level , at NATO headquarters in  Brussels , Belgium , 11 June 2010 . NATO still wants its soldiers to start handing over control of security in Afghanistan to local troops this year , even though the alliance is facing the toughest fighting it has seen since going into the country , NATO?s secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen said .  EPA/OLIVIER HOSLET