Essential Documents

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    Afghanistan National Development Strategy, 2008-2013

    Published April 21, 2008

    In the foreward to this strategy document from Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai states, "This strategy has been completed after two years of hard work and extensive consultations around the country. As an Afghan-owned blueprint for the development of Afghanistan in all spheres of human endeavor, the ANDS will serve as our nation's Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper. I am confident that the ANDS will help us in achieving the Afghanistan Compact benchmarks and Millennium Development Goals. I also consider this document as our roadmap for the long-desired objective of Afghanization, as we transition towards less reliance on aid and an increase in self-sustaining economic growth."

    Essential Documents are vital primary sources underpinning the foreign policy debate.

    National Strategy
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