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Columns::March 3, 2003

Worth repeating

One of the participants in the Ambassadors Roundtable during the Center for Humanities and Arts symposium on “Globalization and Change in Central Asia” was Tariq Salim Chaudhry, first secretary of the Pakistan mission to the United Nations. He answered a question about the role of the United States in the region:
“You will not have peace in Afghanistan for one year, two years or three years--this country has been so torn apart by war it will take at least another quarter of a century. The worst problem that can happen right now for Afghanistan, but of course it’s also true for other countries in the region, is to move the cameras from Afghanistan to Iraq. Without the cameras, we have all the aid, all the political energies, everything moving, shifting away from Afghanistan, without solving one problem.
“What needs to be done in Afghanistan is to stay there for a long time. Now as long as there is a process there is a way to get everybody accommodated somehow, all the minorities. That needs to be done. We need that focus.
“Now the United States has a role to play, a positive role. But what is essential is that whatever the United States does it must be done within the overall legal framework of the international community. No action led by the United States or anybody else should take place in places like Iraq unless it is sanctioned by the Security Council. Even for that action to take place, all peaceful options--all options short of war--have to be exhausted first.”

--Beth Roberts

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