Britain will help Afghanistan with upcoming elections and has offered to set up a task force to fight corruption, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Saturday in Afghanistan.
Brown, who arrived in southern Afghanistan to visit British troops, appeared at a news conference with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. The prime minister said Karzai had accepted Britain's offers.
Britain will give Afghanistan $10 million to help register voters for next year's election, he said, adding it's in everyone's interest for it to be "free and fair." A presidential election is scheduled for May, 2009.
"We will not allow the Taliban or terrorists to defy the democratic rule of the Afghan people and we will not allow the Taliban to use Afghanistan," Brown said.
Britain will give Afghanistan $10 million to help register voters for next year's election, he said, adding it's in everyone's interest for it to be "free and fair." A presidential election is scheduled for May, 2009.
"We will not allow the Taliban or terrorists to defy the democratic rule of the Afghan people and we will not allow the Taliban to use Afghanistan," Brown said.
"And so our troops are a front line against the Taliban. There is a chain of terror that comes from the Pakistani and Afghan mountains right across Europe, and could end up very easily on the streets of Britain," he said.
The Taliban and its supporters have been attempting a resurgence in the country they ruled until U.S.-led forces routed them after the September 11, 2001, al Qaeda attacks on New York and Washington. Al Qaeda had set up training camps in Afghanistan.
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