The UN Special Representative for Afghanistan, Kai Eide, called Tuesday on Kabul and its international supporters to forge a "new deal" to push forward progress for the Afghan people. Afghanistan and more than 80 countries and international organisations helping with post-Taliban reconstruction meet in Paris on Thursday to consider a new 50.1-billion-dollar development plan for the insurgency-hit nation.
"The Paris conference is more than just a pledging conference for donors. We will seek to forge a 'new deal' between the government of Afghanistan and the international community," Eide said in a statement.
The international community must bring "much greater coherence in the assistance being provided," he said. "We must channel more resources and effort towards building basic state institutions able to protect and serve the Afghan people." The Afghan government also "must play its part by deepening and broadening its economic and political reform process demonstrating greater accountability ...," he said.
One of the main concerns that observers have raised about the Afghanistan National Strategy is how the government could cope with the billions of dollars it is asking for amid widespread corruption in the administration.
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