KABUL, 1 June 2009: International forces under NATO command in Afghanistan will stop using white vehicles from 1 June in response to calls from NGOs for clearer markings to distinguish between civilian and military vehicles, IRIN News reports.
“All NATO-owned vehicles that are coloured white only are to have that colour changed… to a degree sufficient to render the vehicle clearly and obviously multi-coloured,” said a NATO policy statement issued by Marco Bertolini, chief of staff of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).
“For NATO-owned vehicles, measures are being taken to ensure that the vehicles are clearly and obviously NATO,” Anthony Lutz, an ISAF spokesman, told IRIN.
Agreement on this was reached after months of strong lobbying by mostly international aid agencies which have accused NATO/ISAF of deliberately using white vehicles to get greater protection.
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