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Donors Tie Future Afghanistan Aid to Strict Conditions

Ayesha Tanzeem

   ISLAMABAD - Donor countries have tied Afghanistan's future civilian
   financial aid of $3 billion a year for four years to strict conditions,
   including maintaining human rights, improving governance and reducing
   corruption.

   "Afghanistan and the international community have entered a new and
   very disciplined phase of their long-standing partnership," said
   Deborah Lyons, the United Nations secretary-general's special
   representative for Afghanistan, at a two-day donor conference that
   ended Tuesday in Geneva.

   The new cooperation, she added, will be underlined by conditionality
   and a tough, yearly, review mechanism.

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