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From: Ina Iankulova (iiankulova@sorosny.org)
Date: Wed Apr 23 2003 - 13:06:36 EDT
FEDERALISM REJECTED AT MAZAR-E SHARIF SEMINAR
In a one-day seminar on 21 April, Rafi Bedar, director of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission satellite office in Mazar-e Sharif, said the future Afghan constitution should accept the rights of all nationalities residing in the country, but added that Afghan society is not ready for a federal system, Hindukosh news agency reported on 22 April. Ayyub Yosufzai, a professor of law at Balkh University, also rejected the idea of a federal system for Afghanistan, the report added. The idea of a federal system for Afghanistan has been supported by northern Afghan regional leader and Deputy Defense Minister Abdul Rashid Dostum, who organized a seminar in Mazar-e Sharif in February in which participants supported the idea of a federal system for Afghanistan (see "RFE/RL Afghanistan Report," 4 February and 24 April 2003). AT
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