Afghanistan conference
The Afghanistan Conference has been a meeting of some of the world's countries, which has taken place irregularly since 2001, with the aim of coordinating the political and economic reconstruction of the country after 23 years of war.
Conferences held so far
The first conference took place from November 27th to December 5th, 2001 on the Petersberg in Königswinter near Bonn . Four delegations from various Afghan groups with a total of 28 delegates took part in the conference. It ended with the passing of the Petersberg Agreement, which provided for a step-by-step plan for the transfer of power to a democratically legitimized government after the Taliban had been overthrown . With the agreement, the so-called Petersberg process was initiated, which should lead to the democratization and pacification of the country.
On 21/22 In January 2002, a donor conference for Afghanistan met in Tokyo, which pledged reconstruction aid totaling 4.5 billion US dollars. At the conference it was also decided that the coordination of the establishment of Afghan institutions should be assigned to individual states. Germany was responsible for building up the police force, the USA for building up the army, Italy for building up the judiciary, Great Britain for combating drugs and for demobilizing, disarming and reintegrating former militias, in cooperation with UNAMA .
On December 2, 2002, another conference took place, again on the Petersberg, at which stipulations on the structure and size of the Afghan army to be created were made.
The fourth meeting took place on March 31 and April 1, 2004 in the Interconti-Hotel in Berlin . The conference with more than 60 delegations was opened by the German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and the Afghan interim president Hamid Karzai and was chaired jointly by Germany , Japan , Afghanistan and the United Nations . Afghanistan received new international aid pledges of around 7.4 billion euros. Combating drug cultivation in the country was a key theme of the conference.
At the Afghanistan Conference from January 31 to February 1, 2006 in London, the successful completion of the Petersberg Process was established and the Afghanistan Compact final document created a framework for the second phase of the country's reconstruction over the next five years.
The Afghanistan conference 2007 took place on 2-3. July 2007 in Rome . The topic was “Rule of Law” in Afghanistan.
The 2008 Afghanistan Conference took place on June 12, 2008 in Paris .
The 2009 Afghanistan Conference took place on March 31, 2009 in The Hague .
The 2010 Afghanistan Conference took place on January 28, 2010 in London . The topic was handing over responsibility to the Afghan army .
A conference was held in Kabul on July 20, 2010. Topics were the handover of security responsibility and a dropout program worth at least 350 million euros for the Taliban. The Kabul process passed there replaced the Afghanistan Compact in February 2011 . It is intended to enable Afghans to govern themselves with a stable government, to reduce their dependence on the international community, to consolidate the power of the security forces and to ensure better protection for the rights of all citizens.
On December 5, 2011, an Afghanistan conference took place in Bonn. Ten years after the Petersberg Conference, it was symbolically under the Afghan Presidency. It was agreed that after the combat units had withdrawn until 2014, a ten-year transition phase would follow. The most important point is the West’s commitment to continue supporting the Afghan security forces.
Web links
- Petersberg Convention of the First Conference 2001 (PDF)
- Federal Foreign Office on the 1st Afghanistan Conference on the Petersberg 2001 ( Memento from March 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- Britain stages UN summit in attempt to speed up reconstruction of Afghanistan ("The Guardian", January 19, 2006 - preliminary report on the UN summit "Bonn-Zwei" at the end of January 2006 in London)
- London Conference on Afghanistan (English)
- Afghanistan Conference 2011 in Bonn ( Memento from December 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
supporting documents
- ^ Federal Agency for Civic Education: Afghanistan Conference in Kabul
- ↑ unama.unmissions.org: Kabul Process and Aid Coherence ( Memento of March 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ co.gov.uk: Foreign Secretary statement on Afghanistan , July 21, 2010, accessed December 28, 2011
- ↑ süddeutsche.de: West agrees "Decade of Transition" for Afghanistan