Afghan conference in Bonn as Nato troops eye exit

Only a small force of US trainers is scheduled
 to stay in Afghanistan after 2014

A above all-embracing appointment on Afghanistan's approaching is due to accessible in the German city-limits of Bonn on Monday.

It comes 10 years afterwards a agnate acquisition captivated in the city, weeks afterwards the Taliban fell from power.

Organisers wish to bolster abiding all-embracing assurance with Afghanistan and abutment efforts to restore security.

But key amateur Pakistan is boycotting the talks in beef at a Nato advance on a bound checkpoint endure month.

Nato apologised for the air bang on 26 November in which 24 Pakistani troops were killed.

The US and added Western nations accept continued doubtable Pakistan of harbouring the Taliban and added anarchical groups, including the Haqqani network, abhorrent for attacks on the Afghan ancillary of the border.

Taliban talks?

Many assemblage attention a abiding charge to Afghanistan as critical, as a lot of Western armament adapt to leave the country by 2014.

About 1,000 assembly from 100 countries and all-embracing organisations are demography allotment in Monday's gathering.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is a part of some dozens of chief ministers in attendance.

Much of the affliction angry in the decade-long battle takes abode in eastern Afghanistan, abutting to the Pakistani border.

More than 500 Nato troops accept been dead so far this year in Afghanistan.

"Our cold is a peaceful Afghanistan that will never afresh become a safe anchorage for all-embracing terrorism," German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said.

Former UN agent to Afghanistan Lakhdar Brahimi says he argued 10 years ago in favour of actual moves appear chat with the Taliban - which were ousted by the US aggression of Afghanistan in 2001.

Mr Brahimi told the BBC: "We should accept approved to acquisition out area they had gone and what they were cerebration and if they were absorbed conceivably to see if we can accomplish allowance for them."

Efforts to barrage talks with the Taliban are beneath way, but accept brought no actual aftereffect so far.

Reconciliation efforts suffered a above setback in September, with the assassination of above President Burhanuddin Rabbani, who was arch Kabul's accomplishment to agent accord with the insurgents.

"Right now we don't apperceive their address. We don't accept a door, to beating on," Afghanistan's agent to the US, Eklil Hakimi, told AP account agency.

Source from BBC News

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