| Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Monday, November 19, 2001 |
Conference on Afghanistan Reconstruction to Be Held Nov. 27-29 |
An international conference to discuss a reconstruction program for Afghanistan will be held Nov. 27-29 in Pakistan, World Bank President James Wolfensohn said Sunday.
The conference in Islamabad will be led by the World Bank, the U.N. Development Program and the Asian Development Bank.
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An international conference to discuss a reconstruction program for Afghanistan will be held Nov. 27-29 in Pakistan, World Bank President James Wolfensohn said Sunday.
The conference in Islamabad will be led by the World Bank, the U.N. Development Program and the Asian Development Bank. An initial meeting held by the United States and Japan is scheduled for Tuesday in Washington, with the World Bank and U.N. development agency taking part, Wolfensohn said.
Any reconstruction plan would be implemented only when humanitarian relief efforts have been completed and a political solution has been found, he said.
"We would not want to go for a reconstruction plan decided by foreigners for a government that has not come into place," Wolfensohn told reporters at the end of World Bank-International Monetary Fund talks in Ottawa.
A World Bank statement said the conference agenda would include ways to stimulate agricultural recovery and generate employment, along with developing education and health services and rebuilding essential infrastructure such as roads and irrigation networks.
There was no cost estimate, but the statement said reconstruction was expected to be high.
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