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UN Secretary General to address Afghanistan at the London Conference

22 January 2010 00:33 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Ziya Agazade â€“ APA. The conference will take place in London on 28 January 2010 and It will be co-hosted by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, President Karzai and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and co-chaired by the UK and Afghan Foreign Ministers and the UN, APA reported quoting UNâ€™s website.

The Prime Minister, who announced the London Conference at a press conference with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 28 November, said the purpose of the conference is to ’drive forward our campaign in Afghanistan, to match the increase in military forces with an increased political momentum, to focus the international community on a clear set of priorities across the 43-nation coalition and marshal the maximum international effort to help the Afghan government deliver’.

The shared Afghan and international goal remains a stable and secure Afghanistan.