Reuters
UK promises Afghans £600m in aid
Updated 14.32 Thu Jun 12 2008
Britain will provide around £600 million in reconstruction aid to Afghanistan up to 2012/2013.
At an Afghan donors conference in France, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said: "In the period up to 2012/13, the UK will be committing about £600 million to the Afghan reconstruction effort."
"In the period up to 2012/13, the U.K. will be committing about £600 million to the Afghan reconstruction effort" - Foreign Secretary David Miliband
Mr Miliband said this sum was in addition to aid money that Britain pledged at a 2006 donors conference, which he said would run out in the year 2008/2009.
More than 65 countries are attending the Paris conference, including the US, which has promised to provide about £5 billion in aid, the largest sum pledged so far.
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