By IANS
New Delhi : Minister of State for Home Sriprakash Jaiswal is to leave for Rome Monday to attend a two-day conference aimed at helping war-ravaged Afghanistan restructure its judicial system, officials said.
The Italian and the Afghan governments are jointly organising the conference in order to obtain a high level of political commitment to reforming the judiciary in Afghanistan.
The conference also aims to help Afghanistan adopt an action plan on taking the judicial system to its provinces and establish synergies between the judiciary and the police, the officials added.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Secretary General Jaap De Hoop Scheffer are among those slated to participate in the conference.
The main political message of the conference is to reaffirm the international community's commitment to accelerate the reform of the Afghan judicial system so that it becomes one of the fundamental pillars for the country's progress.