The United States is considering to pledge almost four billion dollars in additional aid for Afghanistan at an international donors conference to be held in Paris on June 14, local mass media reported Tuesday.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is likely to attend the conference, an unidentified senior government official was quoted as reporting.
France, which is to host the international meeting with Germany, has set a broad goal of raising 12 billion dollars and 15 billion dollars to fund Afghan reconstruction projects through 2014. The United States hopes to contribute a minimum of 25 percent of that total, the official said.
International donors reportedly have pledged about 32.7 billion dollars in reconstruction funds for Afghanistan since 2001, of which 21 billion dollars has come from the United States.
In a NATO summit last week, France and some NATO member states agreed to deploy more troops to Afghanistan to curb increasing Taliban-linked violence.
Source:Xinhua
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