News Focus: Afghanistan
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and President Hamid Karzai at London conference, 28 Jan. '10
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Key resources:
Statements
UN Mission-UNAMA
Special Representative for Afghanistan
Kai Eide, Special Representative for Afghanistan and Head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA).
Background
Facts & Figures
Land area - 652,000 sq km
Population - 21.8 million(2002)
Capital - Kabul
Climate - arid to semiarid; cold winters and hot summers
Terrain - mostly rugged mountains; plains in north and southwest
Food production - wheat, fruit, nuts, mutton
A Historical Perspective
UNAMA was established on 28 March 2002 by UN Security Council Resolution 1401 following the Bonn Agreement of December 2001. More
Other links and documents:
Aid/development
We need a coherent political strategy - not as an add-on to the military strategy, but which guides it as part of a balanced civilian and military approach, with peace and reconciliation as an integral component.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in remarks to UN International Conference on Afghanistan in London, 28 Jan. '10
