From NATO: On 7 February, on his first day as NATO’s newly appointed Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan (SCR), Ambassador Mark Sedwill, was publically welcomed by his military counterpart, the Commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), General Stanley McChrystal, at a senior level briefing, at ISAF Headquarters in Kabul.

Ambassador Mark Sedwill was appointed as the new SCR by the NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, on 26 January. The SCR represents the political leadership of the Alliance in Kabul officially and publicly…

The Ambassador intends to spend a significant portion of his day working with the senior staff in the operations room, to ensure that the governance and development work is being coordinated with the security effort. “We have to take the opportunity to build a genuinely joint and new, kind of campaign headquarters here at the ISAF headquarters and that’s what we intend to do working together as a complete team.” (photo: NATO)