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News item | 14-04-2008
On 13 April major donors including the USA, the UK, Germany, Canada, and the Netherlands reached agreement on ways of improving the coordination of assistance to Afghanistan.
At a meeting chaired by Dutch development minister Bert Koenders, the donors agreed that more needed to be done via the Afghan government and that development experts should gradually take over the reconstruction tasks being carried out by the military in villages and surrounding districts.
The parties criticised the Afghan government for doing too little against corruption and the cultivation and the trade in opium. Afghan finance minister Anwar-ul-Haq Ahadi promised that the Afghan government would step up its efforts in these areas.
The donors also agreed to increase coordination between their programmes for education, health care, agriculture, and economic development. In April 2008 they will take a first step in this direction by travelling together to Afghanistan.
Mr Koenders was very pleased with the results of the meeting. 'The success of the development programmes will ultimately determine the moment when the NATO forces will finally be able to transfer their tasks to the Afghan army.'
14-04-2008