By DPA
Evora (Portugal) : European Union chief foreign policy commissioner Javier Solana decried the latest suicide bomb attack in Kabul and said that efforts to rebuild Afghanistan must go on.
At an informal gathering of EU foreign ministers in Evora, Solana was commenting on the suicide attack Saturday, which had killed at least 27 and wounded 29 persons.
“We must carry on,” Solana said about the efforts to rebuild Afghanistan, and praised the EU’s work to train the Afghan police force. “The EU is doing its utmost.”
German Defence Minister Franz-Josef Jung commented that the number of EU specialists providing training would be raised to 195 by next March. At the moment, there are 75 EU trainers at work in Afghanistan.