According to AP, it reported that representatives of 85 countries including US and Europe pledged to support Afghanistan in half century after most coalition forces withdraw in 2014 in order to demand in exchange better governance, a clampdown on graft, and clean elections once President Hamid Karzai's term expires.
Bonn conference's communiqué aim at inserted after Western insistence on Monday claimed for "strengthening and improving Afghanistan's electoral process." Afghanistan approved the statement.
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi on Monday reiterated Iran’s objections to the NATO keeping some forces in neighboring Afghanistan after 2014. “Certain Western countries seek to extend their military presence in Afghanistan beyond 2014 by maintaining their military bases there. We regard measures to be contradictory to efforts to sustain stability and security in Afghanistan,” he announced in the Bonn conference on Afghanistan. “Any international or regional initiative to restore peace and security in Afghanistan could only be successful if they discard the presence of foreign military forces and especially for the founding of foreign military bases in Afghanistan.”
Bonn conference's communiqué aim at inserted after Western insistence on Monday claimed for "strengthening and improving Afghanistan's electoral process." Afghanistan approved the statement.
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi on Monday reiterated Iran’s objections to the NATO keeping some forces in neighboring Afghanistan after 2014. “Certain Western countries seek to extend their military presence in Afghanistan beyond 2014 by maintaining their military bases there. We regard measures to be contradictory to efforts to sustain stability and security in Afghanistan,” he announced in the Bonn conference on Afghanistan. “Any international or regional initiative to restore peace and security in Afghanistan could only be successful if they discard the presence of foreign military forces and especially for the founding of foreign military bases in Afghanistan.”