U.S. To Announce New Afghan Financial Aid Package
January 27, 2006
Afghan President Hamid Karzai (file photo) (epa)
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)