EU Offers Afghanistan 600 Million-Euro Aid Package
January 29, 2007
Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta (file photo) (epa)
The funding will go to healthcare, reform of Afghanistan's justice sector, and rural development, including alternatives to opium poppy production.
Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta, who attended a meeting in Berlin with EU officials, insisted on the "need to stabilize the situation before terrorist groups can reform."
(AFP)