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[...] we and our allies are training the army and police, improving "governance", tackling corruption and drugs, promoting education, health care and economic development. The Soviets greatly increased their economic and military aid, and trained large numbers of Afghan soldiers and civilian specialists in the Soviet Union. The USSR naturally recognised the new regime, whose programme seemed benign enough: the démocratisation of society, the abolition of illiteracy and ethnic discrimination, equality for women and the modernisation of agriculture and industry.
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The Prime Minister tells us that our aims in Afghanistan are clear, justified, realistic and achievable. Three-quarters of the terrorist plots against us, he says, originate in the mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan. He wants the Afghans to deal with this threat themselves, so that we can bring our soldiers home.
So we and our allies are training the army and police, improving "governance", tackling corruption and drugs, promoting education, health care and economic development. We will thus, says the Foreign Secretary, unite "key players behind shared goals - al- Qaeda kept out, the different tribal groups kept...See the full content of this document
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