KABUL - Afghanistan would reach economically self-sufficiency and would never be in need of the international community’s contributes till 2035, minister of foreign affairs, Dr. Zalmai Rassoul said Saturday.
Both Afghanistan and international community had reached an agreement on a joint clear accountability procedure at the Tokyo donor meeting, based on both sides were responsible to supervise on how the world funds could be spent in development of the country, Dr. Rassoul reporters.

He said the country is at present securing over 90 percent of its budget via the international community’s funds.
Meanwhile minister of finance, Dr. Omar Zakhilwal told reporters the government had a regular and proper plan for the world donors’ aids.

The Tokyo conference had pledged 45 percent of the aids to be spent in reconstruction of the country’s infrastructures, 25 percent in agriculture rehabilitation, 15 percent in human development resources, 15 percent in securing good governance and the remaining five percent in private sector in building and raising the activity of the private sector, he detailed.

The finance minister also said that creation of a bilateral electoral accountability framework, improvement of financial and investment system and registering the government authorities’ assets were also from the main parts the commitments, which they had collected in a document and started practical work on.

The Tokyo donor meeting discussed Afghanistan’s economic condition and pledged to provide the war-and-economic-tattered country with financial cooperation till 2025.
The donor countries among them, U.S. Japan, Germany and UK vowed to provide the country with $17 billion within 2012 and 2017. (Waqt)