When the Soviet Forces withdrew from Afghanistan, the international community did not pay much attention to the Afghani people. This caused a big vacuum and the Afghani people were ruled by military groups because of the absence of an authority there. Many standards of the “Failed State” were applicable on Afghanistan that time while the terrorist organizations realized that such conditions provide them with a secured shelter such as Al-Qaeda which took Afghanistan as a base for its activities.
After the Eleventh of September attacks Afghanistan became an arena of war after the entrance of the International Coalition Forces led by NATO to fight terrorism there; Afghanistan captured the attention of the world again.
The International Coalition Forces announced that they would withdraw from Afghanistan by 2014. The international community has been arranging for introducing aids to Afghanistan to end the transition when the International Coalition Forces existed in the country and create economic, social, political transformations to have a modern, stable Afghanistan.
The international efforts have increased to create the desired economic, social, and economic changes such as New Delhi Conference on Afghanistan in June 2012, Kabul’s Conference in June 2012, and Tokyo Conference on Afghanistan in July 2012 which represented important stations to make Afghanistan Post-2014 stable and prosperous.
Kabul’s Conference was a political conference in which the participants discussed the factors of Renaissance in Afghanistan and possible scenarios to exit the transition of power in Afghanistan. Different parties including the participating states and regional and international organizations introduced visions on the strategic directions such as vision for transformation and development strategy.
The deliberations discussed the possible ways to make Self-reliance Afghanistan including reliance on its natural resources, energy and food securities, good-governance, and selecting the national priorities such as gender equality and providing job opportunities. Kabul’s Conference was concluded by a conception that Afghanistan can take full responsibility of its security and stability in 2015.
The long-term transformations (2014-2025) we hope that Afghanistan will become less-dependant on the international aids and achieve developmental renaissance that reinforces peace and security in the country. We also hope that Afghanistan will introduce itself as an Islamic democrat nation that can cooperate with its regional neighbors.
New Delhi Conference on Afghanistan was an important station to discuss the economic arrangements. The economic Afghani officials, representatives of the concerned organizations in development, and representatives of commercial and economic parties from South Asia, Middle East, and advanced industrial countries participated in the conference.
New Delhi Conference on Afghanistan was hold to encourage investments in Afghanistan through regional and international businessmen and the objectives of investments in the extraction and exploration of natural resources, infrastructure, agriculture, and communication technology fields. The attraction of foreign investments to Afghanistan represents an opportunity to help the country that was destructed by wars. One of the most important recommendations that concluded New Delhi Conference was providing a protection to the investments of private sector, reducing risks, providing incentives for investment in Afghanistan, and establishing an international fund to support small and medium companies. The Foreign US Minister H. Clinton declared that the US administration decided to consider Afghanistan as a strategic alliance out of NATO.
The recommendations of New Delhi and Tokyo Conferences were introduced to the participants to form a framework for the international donors to to coordinate their efforts to provide the required financial resources for Afghanistan after the withdrawal of the international forces.
All these stations that started from Kabul to New Delhi and finished in Tokyo aimed at allay fears for the Post-2014 era in which the foreign forces won’t exist in Afghanistan and instability in Afghanistan. The donors provided 16 million dollars to fund the political, economic, social, and cultural transformations in Afghanistan. Such important efforts need the success of negotiations between Taliban and international forces as a step to complete the arrangements for Post-2014.