Top International Officials Comment on Afghanistan's Security Challenges

EurasiaNet contributor Ahmed Rashid interviewed the UN Secretary General's Special Representative to Afghanistan Lakhdar Brahimi, and Major General Sir John McColl, the head of the International Security Assistance Force. Brahimi and McColl are the two most senior and critical foreign officials dealing with the sensitive issues of an expansion of the International Security Assistance Force, the creation of a new Afghan army and the political security situation. The text of their comments on Afghanistan's security challenges follows:

Lakhdar Brahimi, The UN Secretary General's Special Representative for Afghanistan:

For a country so devastated, the first reconstruction project has to be in the security sector.