Sentences with phrase «afghan government»

Only a few years ago the Law Library played a key role in assisting the Afghan government.

Afghan Government and Parliament must address gaps in mining law to prevent conflict and corruption

We do this in three ways: by investigating and exposing the scale and nature of the problem, by researching possible policy solutions, and by working with the Afghan government and donors to put them into practice.

We are pressing the Afghan government and its foreign partners to prioritise putting in place the strongest possible foundations of transparency, oversight, and effective regulation in Afghanistan.

A roadmap of steps the Afghan government and international donors can take to help Afghanistan avoid the resource curse

This amounts to about $ 500 million less than under a business - as - usual scenario — and less than one - quarter of the $ 2.6 billion in earnings that some Afghan government officials have projected.

That dry spell, State Department experts say, helped topple a previous Afghan government, that of the former king, Mohammad Zahir Shah, in 1973.

The Afghan government donated land for training bases, while bin Laden paid for the volunteers» transportation, facilities and training.

Professor Tatem and his team have been working with the Afghan government and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to remap the country's population, and recently presented results to President Ghani in Kabul.

Meanwhile, he was making plans for an upcoming trip to Afghanistan, to help the Afghan government extend its information infrastructure to the northern and western parts of the country.

The PM said the next few months would be «critical» and urged the Afghan government to take a bigger role in taking on the Taliban.

The joint letter by the three heads of state, to UN secretary general Ban Ki Moon, calls for the summit to take place before the end of the year «right after the inauguration of the new Afghan government».

While Mr Miliband acknowledged the military effort is necessary in the short - term for maintaining security, he argued the adoption of wider political goals is needed to provide the Afghan government with the capabilities it needs before troop withdrawals are made possible.

Together with international partners and Afghan women human rights defenders, we must make clear that the Afghan Government will be held to account.

It helps that the Afghan government is seen by the international community as legitimate, so that the governments supporting it are in a «stronger moral position'than they were when backing the invasion of an existing state.

«We are building on recent military and civilian gains, the result of joint efforts by the Afghan government and the international community, to ensure progress towards a more stable and secure Afghanistan in 2011,» Mr Hague added.

He called on Mr Hague to «challenge the Afghan government's delivery of its side of the bargain» but added that «there is no room for mixed messages from the government».

William Hague has demanded the Afghan government makes quicker progress in tackling corruption as the Kabul conference gets underway.

At the book's heart is criticism of the incoherence of coalition strategy: the understandable dominance of US policy and resources, a policy driven by the Pentagon rather than the State Department; an Afghan government that lacked institutions or the ability to govern the provinces directly; Afghanistan's part in Pakistan's strategic conflict with India; and criticisms of the UK deployment to Helmand.

Analysts say Mr Miliband's trip is a vital one for relations with the Afghan government, whose reconstruction efforts are perceived to be as important as improving security in the ongoing battle against the Taliban.

New defence secretary Liam Fox angered the Afghan government and caused rifts in his own party with his comments about Afghanistan during a recent visit.

The western media, the US government, or the Afghan government?

«The UK is dedicated to helping the Afghan government make progress towards a sustainable political settlement and a stable regional environment, and to help the Afghan people build a viable Afghan state,» he said.

In addition, there are real questions about the theory that PRTs could imbue the Afghan government with long - term legitimacy through short - term project delivery.

As part of its policy to appease the Taliban and their sympathisers in the Afghan parliament, the Afghan government has in recent years adopted a number of controversial legal measures that narrow down the space for women's rights rather than expanding it further.

Further confusion surrounded which Afghan government actors were supposed to provide the services, as PRTs often focused on governors» offices rather than national ministries.

Mansour emerged as the leader of the Taliban in 2015 by crushing those who favoured peace talks with Kabul and cementing ties with the Haqqani network, a highly sophisticated insurgent group that has been fighting against NATO and the Afghan government since the early 1990s.

First, donors should revise their conceptions of assisting Afghan government «service delivery.»

One of the sticking points in the run up to the conclusion of SPA was the Afghan government's demand that the US - led coalition should formally commit in concrete terms to a multi-billion dollar security assistance package for Afghanistan's security in the post-withdrawal period.

It is why Britain is a leading member — alongside the United States — of the coalition working successfully to defeat Daesh; why we have agreed to send 800 troops to Estonia and Poland as part of NATO's forward presence in eastern Europe; why we are increasing our troop contribution to NATO's Resolute Support mission that defends the Afghan government from terrorism; and it is why we are reinforcing our commitment to peacekeeping operations in Kosovo, South Sudan and Somalia.

So far, the US and NATO have preferred to chalk out a course in Afghanistan either on their own or in cooperation with the Afghan government.

Under the plan, Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) will assume full responsibility for combat operations within a year; NATO will withdraw all of its combat troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014; and the Afghan government will receive some $ 4 billion in security assistance from the US and its NATO allies, in addition to non-combat military support for a decade beyond 2014.

A similar global commitment to assist Afghan government's development efforts beyond 2014 is expected at the international donors» conference on Afghanistan, to be held in July in Tokyo.

Funding from opium trade, the weakness and corruption of the Afghan government, the tacit support of many in Pakistan, who have no faith in the West's staying power, and the steady trickle of casualties highlight the need for a political solution.

While Pakistan's willingness to secure a peace deal between the Afghan government and the Taliban - led insurgents is important, it is its unique ability to do so that is crucial.

If Pakistan feels at some stage that its interest in securing a friendly regime is being obstructed by hardline figures in the Afghan government, then it has the lever of raising the issue of Afghan refugee repatriation to extract due concessions in the process.

He claims that the «United States overthrew the [Taliban] Afghan government in 2001.»

There is no help from the Afghan government.

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of Hezb - i - Islami, made peace with the Afghan government last year.

The documents — dating from 2006 to 2010 and obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act — show officials getting increasingly exasperated with the Afghan government's lack of interest in investigating the crime.

According to the documentary film «Saving Mes Aynak,» the mine would in effect destroy the ancient city, though MCC and the Afghan government claim that they will «move» the city in order to extract the more than $ 100 billion of copper deposited directly beneath it.

«The number of districts controlled or influenced by the Afghan government had been one of the last remaining publicly available indicators for members of Congress — many of whose staff do not have access to the classified annexes to SIGAR reports — and for the American public of how the 16 - year - long US effort to secure Afghanistan is faring,» he added.

Late last year, a Pentagon report said the Afghan government has control or influence over 60 % of the population, while insurgents had control or influence over approximately 10 % of the population, with the remainder contested.

An integral part of the program was to pay militants to transfer their loyalty, and their weapons, to the Afghan government in order to serve as informal peacekeepers in a country dominated by militias.

A report last year from the U.S. Institute of Peace, quoted in the Post, said that although violent extremist groups in Afghanistan are unpopular, their ideologies have not been effectively countered by the Afghan government and the international community.

«Aside from that, the number of districts controlled or influenced by the Afghan government had been one of the last remaining publicly available indicators for members of Congress — many of whose staff do not have access to the classified annexes to SIGAR reports — and for the American public of how the 16 - year - long US effort to secure Afghanistan is faring,» he added.

Trump on Monday railed against the recent string of attacks in Afghanistan, and ruled out any US discussions with the Taliban as part of the effort to seek peace talks between the Afghan government and the insurgents.

De Leon will deploy later this year to Afghanistan, where his mission will be to persuade the populace to side with the Afghan government rather than with the Taliban.

The Department of Defense has only classified these figures once before — in 2015, when the Obama administration «was trying to portray the war in Afghanistan as all but over,» as the New York Times put it; today, the Afghan government appears to be playing defense, as well.

But even worse, as of 2017, neither the US nor the Afghan government actually know how many personnel are ready for duty, thanks to the prevalence of «ghost» personnel: phony soldiers used to fence US - paid salaries and equipment.