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Afghans Set a Plan As Envoys Pledge Money

Tuesday, January 31, 2006 3:33:18 PM
By BETH GARDINER

Afghan President  Hamid Karzai, left, greets US Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice at the London Conference on Afghanistan in central London, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2006. Envoys from nearly 70 nations and international bodies gathered in London, Tuesday to keep up the flow of support to Afghanistan, which is still plagued by violence and poverty more than four years after the fall of the Taliban. The conference delegates, who also included U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, issued a five-year blueprint for the troubled Central Asian nation's security, economic development and counter-narcotic efforts.  (AP Photo/Luke MacGregor/WPA pool)LONDON (AP) - Afghanistan set out a plan Tuesday to tackle problems from opium production to corruption and terrorism, as envoys from more than 60 nations pledged they would help the shattered nation along the road to peace and self-sufficiency.

Dignitaries at the opening of a two-day conference on Afghanistan's future spoke proudly of the country's achievements since a U.S.-led coalition toppled the hard-line Taliban regime in 2001.

But they agreed that with desperate poverty widespread and violence flaring, it still had a long way to go.


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