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Article: AFGHANISTAN: NEW GENERATION TO LEAD AFGHANISTAN?
- Article from:
- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- December 4, 2001
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In a letter read on 27 November to Afghans meeting in a facility overlooking the Rhine River in Petersburg, Germany, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned, "You must not allow the mistakes of the past to be repeated, particularly those of 1992. To many skeptics, it appears that that is precisely what you are about to do. You must prove them wrong and show that you can choose the path of compromise over conflict." By the end of the week it seemed that some success had been achieved, albeit with difficulty, and most of the post-Taliban leadership positions would go to younger pro-Western members of the Northern Alliance and to an ally of former King Mohammad Zahir Shah. ...