Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Thursday that terrorism and drug plantation and trafficking are among the top challenges facing the Central Asian country.
"The third challenge is Afghanistan's serious difficulties in human resources, in the lack of capabilities of civil service, and the inability to reach the countryside with the delivery services as normal countries do," said Karzai at a session of the ongoing World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting.
Another challenge was the aftermath of three decades of war of destruction and misery for the Afghan people, which the country was "trying to overcome in a time shorter than it needs," he added in the session titled "Quest for Peace and Stability."
The Afghan leader asked for help from the international community and the neighboring countries to overcome these difficulties by rebuilding its infrastructure and raising the country's capabilities to deal with the problems equally.
On Wednesday, Karzai called for a "focused, determined, and sustained global partnership" in the fight against terrorism.
"Clearly, no effort to break the vicious cycles of terrorism and violence can succeed without a focused, determined and sustained global partnership," Karzai said at the opening ceremony of the five-day Davos event.
The five-day WEF annual meeting started in this Swiss ski resort on Wednesday under the principal theme of "the Power of Collaborative Innovation."
The event drew the world's political and business elite, including 27 heads of state or government, and more than 110 government ministers.
Source: Xinhua
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