By IRNA,
Berlin : The German government has pledged 420 million euros for the Afghan reconstruction process over the next two years ahead of Thursday’s Afghanistan Compact meeting in Paris, according to a foreign ministry press statement released Wednesday.
Germany is the fourth largest-donor nation in the war-stricken country.
The conference in the French capital aims to raise more than the 10.5 billion US dollars pledged at the London donors conference two years ago.
Afghanistan will ask political representatives from about 65 countries to help fund a 50-billion US dollar, five-year development plan.
Western states heading the more than 50,000-strong foreign military force in Afghanistan are slated to attend the Paris confab, in addition to neighbouring states, among them Iran, Pakistan and China.
The Afghan meeting is aimed at boosting international efforts to help stabilizing the political and security situation in Afghanistan, according to German officials.
Two years after a similar conference in London charted out an international plan to promote security, good governance and development, envoys from western and regional states will evaluate the remaining major challenges in Afghanistan which is still battling Taliban and al-Qaeda rebels more than six years after US-led troops toppled the Taliban regime.