The UN Security Council on Monday welcomed the outcome of the recent Geneva Conference on Afghanistan that aims at reforms and peace prospects in the war-torn country.

Based on the ADB statistics, since 2002, the bank has provided over $4 billion of aid to Afghanistan with the majority of money spent on key projects.

Germany has agreed to provide additional funding of about AFN 5.4 billion to the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF) via KfW Development Bank. 

Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis has offered Switzerland’s services as a peace broker between the warring factions in Afghanistan. Cassis was speaking at a two-day Ministerial Conference on Afghanistan in Geneva. 

EU is prepared to act as a guarantor of the Afghan peace process, the EU’s foreign policy chief said on Wednesday at a two-day ministerial conference in Geneva.  

 UN secretary general Antonio Guterres on Wednesday asked the international community to come together to enable the success of an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace process.

EU Announces $500 Million In New Funds To Afghanistan At Donors Conference

A top UN official in Afghanistan on Tuesday hailed the reform process in the war-ravaged country.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani held talks in the Swiss city of Geneva on Tuesday.

UN refugee chief tells high-level panel at the Geneva Conference on Afghanistan the search for solutions to displacement ‘must be intensified.’

 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a meeting with Chief Executive of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Abdullah Abdullah discussed peace process and fighting terrorism in Afghanistan.

Addressing a private sector side event in Geneva on Tuesday, Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani pointed out the constraints that have challenged the Afghan economy.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will participate in the Geneva Conference on Afghanistan, which is to be held by the United Nations in the Swiss city on Tuesday and Wednesday.