Afghan Compact 2.0 needed: Europeans

Once election dust settles, major planning conference needed, Europeans say

Published October 28, 2009

With the 2006 Afghanistan Compact set to expire next year, diplomats from both sides of the Atlantic, as well as Afghanistan, say the time has come for a major planning conference to chart out a renewed roadmap for stabilizing and rebuilding the country.

In September, the leaders of France, the United Kingdom and Germany wrote to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon proposing a major stakeholders conference be held once a new Afghan government...

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