Central Asia
Op-Ed: Delivering on the Objectives of Afghanistan Conferences
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14 May 2012
Last December in Bonn, Afghanistan chaired and Germany hosted an international conference on “Afghanistan and the International Community: From Transition to the Transformation Decade.” Eighty-five countries and 15 international organizations participated in the Conference to celebrate their shared 10-year achievements, and to recommit to consolidating and sustaining these achievements beyond 2014 into a decade of transformation until 2024.
With the exception of Pakistan, the 100 countries and international organizations in the region and beyond recognized that “the main threat to Afghanistan’s security and stability is terrorism, and that this threat also endangers regional and global peace and security.” They further recognized “the regional dimensions of terrorism and extremism, including terrorist safe havens, and emphasized the need for sincere and result-oriented regional cooperation towards a region free from terrorism in order to secure Afghanistan and safeguard [their] common security against the terrorist threat.”
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