Proceeding contribution from Tobias Ellwood (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 30 November 2006. It occurred during Ministerial statement on NATO Summit.
NATO Summit
Does the Secretary of State agree that if we fail in Afghanistan it will not be because of our military efforts but because we will have failed to help with reconstruction and development efforts? The Secretary-General and General Jones have called for an international co-ordinator to link the UN, USAID, EU, the Department for International Development and the myriad non-governmental organisations that are operating independently or even competing with one another? Afghanistan has some large copper mines and, indeed, huge underground rivers, which are untouched because the international development effort is not co-ordinated. Does the Secretary of State agree that it is now time that a co-ordinator is put in place, similar to the one who undertook such work in Bosnia?
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- 453 c1247-8
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- 2006-07
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- Peacekeeping operations Military alliances Afghanistan NATO Military aid Rapid reaction forces NATO response force ISAF
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