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Afghanistan: Challenges and a Way Forward

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World Affairs Council: Washington DC

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Partner:: World Affairs Council: Washington DC
Location:: World Affairs Council of Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Event Date:: 01.28.08
Speakers:: Dr. Abdullah Abdullah,; Ambassador Ronald Neumann
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Summary: Afghanistan: Challenges and a Way Forward with Dr. Abdullah Abdullah. Ronald Neumann moderates.

After decades of conflict, Afghanistan is making progress in developing its institutions, but is facing a spreading challenge of insurgency. The US and the international community are committed to helping Afghanistan rebuild, however many challenges remain.

Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, a long-serving Foreign Minister of Afghanistan who was active in the country's resistance movement before joining government service, will speak on these many challenges, including poverty and civil violence, job creation, establishing rule of law, and expanding poppy cultivation and a growing opium trade generating $3 billion in illicit economic activity. How will Afghanistan meet these challenges and what are the implications of Afghanistan's stability for the international community? - World Affairs Council of Washington D.C.

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Dr. Abdullah Abdullah

Dr. Abdullah was the foreign minister of the Afghan United Front government from 1998 onwards. Following the assassination of Massoud in 2001, he became one of the three dominant figures in the Northern Alliance and later the Transitional Afghan Government along with Mohammed Fahim and Yunus Qanuni. In 2001 he was selected as Foreign Minister for the Interim Administration of Afghanistan; a post which he lost in a cabinet reshuffle on March 22, 2006. He is generally considered to be, along with former Ministers Mohammed Fahim and Yunus Qanuni, a leader of the Tajik faction, although his mother is actually an ethnic Pashtun. Unlike many other former Northern Alliance officials, he was not removed from his ministerial post immediately after the 2004 Presidential Election.

Ambassador Ronald Neumann

Ronald E. Neumann is the current United States Ambassador to Afghanistan and previously served as ambassador to Algeria from 1994 to 1997 and Bahrain from 2001 to 2004.

He is the son of former ambassador Robert G. Neumann and traveled extensively after college in Afghanistan while his father was ambassador there.

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01.: Introducing Dr. Abdullah Abdullah

04 min 32 sec

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02.: Afghanistan Challenges and a Way Forward

04 min 58 sec

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03.: Push for Democracy in Afghanistan

02 min 23 sec

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04.: Difficulty for Afghans to Work Together

02 min 52 sec

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05.: Political Forces in Afghanistan

04 min 06 sec

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06.: The Issue of Iraq

03 min 36 sec

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07.: The Concerns of Iran

04 min 47 sec

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08.: The International Community

03 min 42 sec

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09.: Q & A

00 min 15 sec

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10.: Q1: Security in Afghanistan

04 min 10 sec

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11.: Q2: Future of Taliban

03 min 50 sec

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12.: Q3: Opium Trade

05 min 48 sec

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13.: Q4: Troubles with Iran

02 min 22 sec

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14.: Q5: Road Systems in Afghanistan

05 min 15 sec

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15.: Q6: Multiethnic Policies

05 min 54 sec

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16.: Q7: Public Health

03 min 52 sec

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17.: Q8: NATO Countries

03 min 13 sec

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18.: Q9: Perception of America

03 min 24 sec

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19.: Q10: Sanctions

02 min 06 sec

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Hope for Democracy in Afghanistan

01 min 33 sec

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Dr. Abdullah Abdullah talks of hope for the future of Afghanistan as its people push towards democracy.
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