U.S. Presses Europe on Aid Increase for Afghanistan

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CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) phoned Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Friday and asked him to call on European Union (news - web sites) countries to boost and speed-up financial support for Afghanistan (news - web sites).

Afghanistan's reconstruction needs recently have been eclipsed by donor attention to rebuilding Iraq (news - web sites).


Afghan officials have complained that international pledges of $4.5 billion for reconstruction in the next five years are woefully inadequate, and have failed to materialize in many cases.


Afghan Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai has warned that the country could become a "narco-mafia state" unless the world honors its promises of support after the fall of the Taliban regime late in 2001.


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