Six Balkan countries will send a joint training team to Afghanistan as part of the NATO mission.

Defense ministers of Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Slovenia have determined details involving the mission aiming at training Afghan security forces.

These countries believe they are able to significantly contribute to better the efficiency of security forces considering their experiences acquired during the civil wars across former Yugoslavia.

"It is crucial agreement for the Balkan region. Even though some of these countries were against each other in the course of the 1990s, they are now joining forces to reinforce security of another country at war," Montenegro's defense minister Boro Vucinic stated.

Officials claim the door for participation into the mission is opened for Serbia as well, which has been accused for the wars in former Yugoslavia.

NATO primarily has been focusing on training and arming Afghanistan's security forces, which at the moment include 306 thousand troops and policemen.