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UN Envoy, Pakistani President Agree on Principles for Resolving Afghan Conflict
UN Special Representative for Afghanistan Lakhdar Brahimi reached agreement with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on principles that must guide the resolution of the Afghan conflict, a UN spokesman said Tuesday.
"Mr. Brahimi met in Islamabad with President Pervez Musharraf, who reaffirmed that the United Nations had a central role to play in the urgent effort to assist the Afghan people," spokesman Fred Eckhard told reporters at the U.N. headquarters.
Explaining the points on which the two agreed, the spokesman said the unity of Afghanistan and its territorial integrity must be preserved.
Meanwhile in New York, answering questions from the press about the role of the Taliban in a new government, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said that the UN would want to see a broad-based government but the decision on who joins it was "for Afghans to make."
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