NATO's Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said the alliance can begin handing over control of some Afghanistan provinces to local authorities beginning in November this year. During a visit to Lisbon, Portugal, where a NATO summit will be held on November 19-20, the NATO chief said he hope that they will be able to make an announcement at the Lisbon summit that transition can start in some provinces. He said they will stay in Afghanistan as long as it takes to finish the job, but obviously that's not forever. US President Barack Obama has set a July 2011 target date to begin withdrawing American troops from the country. His comments came as US General David Petraeus arrived in Kabul last evening to take charge of the 46-nation NATO force. The NATO chief said there may have been a change of command in the Afghan war but the mission remains the same. Meanwhile, one foreign soldier was killed in a bomb explosion in southern Afghanistan on Friday.