IPS, 11 December 2014
In an article about Afghan concerns about western disengagement, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted:
“The political framework was never adequate,” Thomas Ruttig, co-director and co-founder of the Kabul-basedAfghanistan Analysts Network, told IPS. “Over the past few years the international community was busier – at least at the government level – with preparing the withdrawal and designing a positive narrative, rather than with the Afghans left behind.”
“Afghanistan has been a rentier-State for one hundred and fifty years, and will be dependent on external support for quite a while. In this phase we have to lighten the country’s donor dependency, we cannot just walk away. We have the political responsibility to keep to our commitments,” he noted.
Also in Flemish, here…
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