'G8 Urges Pakistan To Help Promote Afghan Stability', Reuters, 26 June 2008
EXCERPT: "Foreign ministers from the Group of Eight (G8) called on Afghanistan's neighbours to help promote stability in the war-ruined country, singling out the need for dialogue between Kabul and Islamabad. Relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan, both important U.S. allies in its campaign against al Qaeda and the Taliban, have long been strained by Afghan accusations that Taliban insurgents operate from sanctuaries on the Pakistani side of their border. 'We call on Afghanistan's neighbours to play a constructive role for the stability of Afghanistan,' the ministers of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States said in a statement after the first day of a meeting in Kyoto, Japan."
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See also:
'Afghanistan, border states to get $4 billion in aid from G-8', Bloomberg, 26 June 2008
'Rich nations tell Afghanistan, Pakistan to talk', Reuters, 26 June 2008
'G8 urge Afghanistan to tackle corruption, pledge further aid', The Earth Times, 26 June 2008
