BRUSSELS (AP) - EU countries resistant to sending more troops to Afghanistan discussed plans Thursday to send more police there to train local officers.

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, speaking at an EU summit in Brussels, said six or seven European countries have agreed to be part of a new gendarme force, though did not name which ones.

"We will try as fast as possible" to reach an agreement on when and where to deploy, he said.

EU countries have rebuffed U.S. calls to send more troops or other resources pending a U.S. review of its policy in Afghanistan. But the EU is considering increasing its police training mission in Afghanistan from 180 to 400.

Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Miliband backed the idea, saying more must be done to train Afghan officers.

"It’s got to be Afghans that defend their country and defend their democracy," he said.

Miliband and Kouchner and foreign ministers from the other 25 EU member states focused on Afghanistan and Pakistan in talks Thursday at the EU summit.

Miliband met with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington on Wednesday to discuss the U.S. review of Afghanistan policy. The review, which President Barack Obama is expected to act on and announce next week, includes recommendations that the U.S. combine a boost in military deployments with a steep increase in civilian experts, from agronomists to legal experts, senior U.S. officials say.

Miliband said the report also will stress that Afghanistan and Pakistan must be viewed together.

"It’s important ... that Pakistan isn’t just a footnote in the Afghanistan story," he said.

He welcomed three days of "relative calm" in Pakistan this week, but urged the country’s political leaders to unite "against its real enemy which is domestic terrorism."

Obama has committed an additional 17,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan to break a stalemate against the Taliban and other insurgents. He wants European nations to commit more troops, too, but is unlikely to win any promises by EU leaders meeting Thursday and Friday.

EU officials said however that the 27-nation bloc could also provide more judges and other judicial experts to improve the rule of law in Afghanistan.