President Hamid Karzai’s re-election on 2 November 2009, following widespread fraud in the 20 August presidential and provincial polls, has delivered a critical blow to his government’s legitimacy.
As international efforts focus on the worsening insurgency in Afghanistan, the issues of refugee return and the mobility of Afghans in their country and around the region have been overshadowed.
Speech by Nick Grono, Deputy President of the International Crisis Group to the NATO Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council Security Forum "Security Through Partnership", in Astana, Kazakhstan on 25 June 2009.
Afghanistan’s forthcoming elections, with presidential and provincial council polls on 20 August 2009, and National Assembly and district elections scheduled for 2010, present a formidable challenge if they are to produce widely accepted and credible results.
Speech by Nick Grono, Deputy President of the International Crisis Group, to International Police Commissioners’ Conference, in The Hague, 16 June 2009.
Seven years after the U.S.-led intervention in Afghanistan the country is still at war against extremists and has developed few resilient institutions.
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