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Geneva, Switzerland – Afghan President Ashraf Ghani travels to Switzerland to speak at high level with international diplomats at a major summit devoted to the development and economy of a country devastated by years of war that have claimed the lives of thousands of people.
Starting on Tuesday, the two-day summit in Geneva is presented as a platform for the Afghan government to renew its commitment to reform and discuss aid contributions in order to achieve stability and security. .
The United Nations, which is co-organizing the summitt Palais des Nations of the city According to the Afghan government, the conference "will also be crucial to measure the results compared to the $ 15.2 billion committed by the international community for Afghanistan in 2016".
The Afghan delegation should present its growth strategy, ranging from maintaining security and building infrastructure to fighting corruption and empowering women.
They also intend to stress the constant need for a constructive contribution from the international community.
"We have progressed by at least 60% – we have another two years to complete – agreed indicators that include private sector expansion, the increase in exports, security sector reform and the inclusion of gender in the Afghan government, "Haroon Chakhansuri, spokesman for the Afghan president, told Al Jazeera.
"For example, for the first time in our history, a woman has been appointed to the Supreme Court, and we have female representation in the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)." leadership in the Ministry of the Interior. "
The Afghan Ministry of Finance said in a statement that "the foreign ministers of 62 countries and the delegations of 35 supporting organizations will attend the conference".
He also said the summit would give the Afghan government a chance to call on the international community to "support a peace process under Afghanistan's control".
The conference comes at a time when the US administration is conducting direct talks with the Taliban, the largest armed group in Afghanistan, which was overthrown following an invasion led by the United States in 2001.
The Taliban want to drive out the country's international forces and establish a legal system based on a strict interpretation of Islamic jurisprudence.
This month, Taliban officials had three days of talks with Zalmay Khalilzad, from Washington Special Representative for Afghanistan in Qatar, charged with relaunching the peace process.
The Afghan government has not been involved in these discussions.
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Last week, a delegation of five Taliban members went to the Russian capital, Moscow, to attend for the first time, an international conference on peace efforts in Afghanistan.
"A second phase (of the talks) should take place between the Afghans (themselves) on how to achieve peace and form a government in Afghanistan," Taliban spokesman Sohail Shaheen told reporters in Qatar , to the press last week.
Last year, the US president Donald Trump increased the number of US forces in the country as part of a new strategy against the Taliban. There are now about 14,000 American soldiers in the country. The Taliban have already declared that the presence of foreign troops is the main obstacle to peace in Afghanistan.
According to the latest figures released in July by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), 1,692 civilians were killed in the first six months of 2018 – the highest number recorded in the decade since the beginning of the documentation.
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