{"id":1874,"date":"2009-09-29T11:50:05","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T11:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=1874"},"modified":"2009-09-29T11:50:05","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T11:50:05","slug":"long-term-development-should-include-rail-security-council-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/long-term-development-should-include-rail-security-council-told\/","title":{"rendered":"Long term development should include rail, security council told"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h3>West should redirect Afghanistan money to north, says UN aide<\/h3>\n<p>The west should redirect much of its aid money from the violent south of Afghanistan to long-term development projects in the more peaceful north, including a <strong>rail network<\/strong>, the head of the UN mission in the country believes.<\/p>\n<p>Kai Eide, the secretary general&#8217;s special representative in Kabul, will tell the security council today that the US and its allies should focus efforts to support key development areas including agriculture, transport and unlocking Afghanistan&#8217;s vast untapped mineral wealth.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nEide said that General Stanley McChrystal, the US commander of Nato forces, had talked about &#8220;making this country in terms of security forces. We need to think in terms of sustainability on the economic side. By <strong>building a railway network<\/strong> and expanding electricity lines we create the base for dramatic economic growth potential.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><cite>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2009\/sep\/28\/afghanistan-aid-money-united-nations\">The Guardian<\/a>, 2009-09-28<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West should redirect Afghanistan money to north, says UN aide The west should redirect much of its aid money from the violent south of Afghanistan to long-term development projects in the more peaceful north, including a rail network, the head of the UN mission in the country believes. Kai Eide, the secretary general&#8217;s special representative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[195],"class_list":["post-1874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-projects","tag-un"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}