Future Of Afghanistan - December Bonn Conference

On 5 December, a major conference on Afghanistan’s future will be held in Bonn (the website is already up here), the place, where 2001 the founding agreements for the Karzai state, for the intervention and for a decade of good intentions and questionable results were laid. The Germans are the hosts, but the Afghan government will chair the conference, selecting their own delegation and testing the sovereignty of the state in transition. A pre-conference forum of elected civil society figures on 2 and 3 December (with its own website, too, here) will allow both, the people to be given a symbolic voice, and the international community, foremost the Germans, to liaise with the real people of Afghanistan. More.