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US seeks stronger un role in Afghanistan United Nations, Dec 3: The United Nations has played a "vital role" in Afghanistan and US wants the world body to continue its "multifaceted" role there. "We think the United Nations has played and must continue to play a vital role in Afghanistan. This role needs to continue and we have every confidence that it will continue," US envoy to the UN Susan Rice told reporters here. Pointing that the UN had a "multifaceted" role of providing humanitarian assistance, coordinating development as well as assisting in political activities in Afghanistan - Rice underlined the urgency of safeguarding and protecting the United Nations Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). "We think that the personnel of UNAMA need and deserve the additional resources to ensure their security, to enable them to ramp up their presence and to expand it to new provinces of Afghanistan," she said. Along with the announcement of troop increase in his speech at the West Point Military Academy, President Obama said that the US would partner with the United Nations to pursue "a more effective civilian strategy so that the government can take advantage of improved security." However, the ability of UN to assist in the US strategy is being questioned since the recent attacks on its guest house in Kabul that left five staffers dead and led to redeployment of UN personnel inside and out of Afghanistan. Back |
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