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U.S. To Announce New Afghan Financial Aid Package

January 27, 2006

Afghan President Hamid Karzai (file photo) (epa)

27January 2006 -- The United States says it will announce a big financial aid package for Afghanistan at a key conference in London on the country's future.

The talks -- on 31 January and 1 February -- are to be attended by 70 countries.


Senior State Department official Nicholas Burns told reporters in Washington today that the United States will announce a major financial contribution for the next fiscal year for economic and military support to Afghanistan.


He said the money would be on top of $10 billion the United States has given to Afghanistan since it helped oust the Taliban regime in 2001.


(AFP)

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