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Contributions from
the Column
Facts and trends
AIDS: auditors criticise Bush administration
WTO disapproves of EU sugar subsidies
Demobilisation in Afghanistan a success
Additional funds for German civil peace service
Kemal Dervis next head of UNDP
New World Bank data on governance
Monetary fund for Asia under preparation
New leaders for WTO and UNCTAD
Canada concentrates development aid
The failure of Plan Colombia
06/2005
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UN considers demobilisation in Afghanistan a success
According to United Nations statistics, the number of militiamen disarmed in Afghanistan exceeded the 50,000 mark in mid May and the goal of demobilising all militiamen by this summer, which President Hamid Karzai had announced last year, is already achieved. The disarmament and reintegration programme, which is run by the UN Development Programme, officially assumes that there were approximately 50,000 members of militias and soldiers in Afghanistan. However, the International Crisis Group doubts these figures. In a report, it claims that the UN does not sufficiently consider the fact that many militiamen have simply joined local police units or the private armies of province governors. Furthermore, it claims that there is a multitude of unofficial militias not covered by the UN mandate. (ell)
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