Turkey's Defence Minister Vekdi Gonul, Russian Defence Minister Ivanov, Britain's Defence Minister Hoon and U.S. Secretary of Defence Rumsfeld chat during NATO meeting in Nice. (L to R) Turkey's Defence Minister Mehmet Vekdi Gonul, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov, an unidentified soldier, Britain's Defence Minister Geoffrey Hoon and U.S. Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld chat during the NATO meeting in Nice February 10, 2005. NATO announced it was ready to launch a long-delayed westward expansion of peacekeeping duties in Afghanistan on Thursday but said it was still short of staff for an officer training mission in Iraq. REUTERS/Pascal Deschamps