Afghanistan eyes reconstruction

China Daily, May 11, 2011

Visiting Afghan Foreign Minister Zalmai Rassoul said on Tuesday his country is willing to work with the international community to promote national reconciliation and reconstruction.

The statement came amid mounting pressure on the United States to withdraw its troops from the region after the killing of Osama bin Laden on May 2.

Rassoul, the first high-ranking Afghan official to visit China since President Hamid Karzai paid his fourth visit last year, was on a four-day trip, which highlighted the growing relations between the two neighbors.

The Afghan government is working to improve its governance capability to push forward national reconciliation and peaceful reconstruction, said Rassoul when meeting his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi.

China will continue to support Afghanistan's efforts to safeguard its national independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity and its peaceful reconstruction, Yang said.

Rassoul also met Vice-Premier Li Keqiang late on Tuesday.

China is a partner in international efforts to support Afghanistan's reconciliation and reconstruction, such as in building schools, hospitals, roads and waterworks.

Almost a decade after US forces entered Afghanistan, it now has more than 100,000 troops stationed in the country, costing at least $100 billion a year. A report released on Tuesday by British charity Oxfam said the major problem facing Afghanistan was whether its security forces were capable of taking over from foreign forces by the end of 2014.

Under a plan agreed at a NATO summit in Lisbon late last year, NATO-led forces will begin a gradual handover of security responsibilities to Afghan forces from July.

Seven areas have been identified to take part in the first stage of the process. Under the plan, all foreign combat troops are due to leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014.

According to US Defense Department figures, there are currently about 150,000 foreign troops in the country, and there are plans to increase the number of local troops and police from 285,000 to 305,000 by October.

The killing of the al-Qaida chief has made the security situation in the region more intense, but in the long run, the planned withdrawal of troops becomes more feasible, experts said.

After bin Laden's death, al-Qaida in Pakistan and Afghanistan threatened to retaliate.

"This will have a negative impact on Afghanistan's security, which may worsen in the coming weeks," said Dong Manyuan, deputy director of China Institute of International Studies.

"Now that Osama bin Laden is dead, the US has a good reason to withdraw its troops from that country," said Niu Xinchun, a US studies specialist at China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations.

Since last year, efforts have intensified to seek a peaceful resolution of the Afghan issue.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai discussed his plan for reconciliation with the Taliban during his visit to China last March, while US Secretary of States Hillary Clinton said in February that Washington would support a political resolution to the conflict.

Also, Turkey's proposal to establish a Taliban political office in Istanbul to boost the peace talks was welcomed by both Afghanistan and Pakistan in April.

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