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1/19/06

Mail & Guardian Online: Britain to stage UN summit on Afghanistan

Mail & Guardian Online

Britain to stage UN summit on Afghanistan

The British government is to co-host an international summit in London at the end of the month to agree a five-year plan to speed up the reconstruction of Afghanistan and confront an upsurge in violence. The conference is to be chaired jointly by British Prime Minister Tony Blair; Hamid Karzai, the Afghan President; and Kofi Annan, the United Nations Secretary General. Condoleezza Rice, the United States Secretary of State, is also scheduled to attend.

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