The Government of Afghanistan will bring together today, in Kabul, representatives of more than 70 countries, international and regional organizations and financial institutions to give the support to an “Afghan Government-led plan for improved development, governance, and stability…aiming to chart for peace”, how it is mentioned in the government’s communiqué.

Nine years after the start of dialogue and a new partnership with the international community, Afghanistan stands at a critical point to achieve lasting peace, security, and stability, with 150 000 troops in its territory (increased number since this summer after Obama’s administration decision) and with blood and tears running side by side day by day.

Hamid Karzai's communiqué declared that Afghan forces should lead and conduct military operations in all provinces of the country by 2014, but the military and security situation will have to be examined by NATO in the end of the year.

Rasmussen already said that transition would depend on "conditions, not calendars" with NATO forces working to train Afghan police and army to take the lead in protecting the country.

The European Left enhances that the road to a solution is not civil and military, but civil instead of military. The Afghani men and women wish for peace. In Afghanistan peace is possible. Peace will come from within Afghanistan itself. Firearms should be silenced but this won’t be possible until all the foreign troops are removed.

The country needs infrastructures, education, democratic rights and women’s rights, and last but not least, an agricultural system that will not produce the most heroin in the world but that, once again, would be able to feed its people.

 

More on the Hamid Karzai's communiqué:

Hamid Karzai calls for the control by the international community to at least 50 percent of development aid through the Afghan government within two years.

The Afghan government pledges to set up a legal committee within six months to review Afghan laws for compliance with U.N. corruption conventions.

The Afghan government pledged to within six months to develop a strategy to implement a law aimed at eliminating violence against woman and provide assistance to victims.

The Afghan government also agreed to work over the next 12 months to bring informal tribal judicial practices in line with the formal national justice system.

The government also pledged to increase domestic revenues in a sustainable manner by about 0.7 percent of GDP by March 2011 with a few to achieving long-term fiscal stability.

Participants endorsed in principle the Afghan efforts to reintegrate Taliban fighters who agree to renounce ties to al Qaeda, eschew violence, and respect the constitution.

The Afghan government pledged to engage with the United Nations Security Council and international community in an "evidence-based and transparent process" of removing militants from a U.N. blacklist.

The participants underlined the importance of the voluntary, safe and gradual return of Afghan refugees with support from the international community.

The next round of trilateral talks between the US, Pakistan and Afghanistan would be held between July and September.