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AFGHANISTAN VITAL FOR SOUTH-CENTRAL ASIA: US OFFICIAL.
WASHINGTON, May 1 Asia Pulse - The Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, Richard Boucher, has said peace, stability and development is vital for the entire South and Central Asia.
"We do believe that the development in Afghanistan is vital to these countries and presents a tremendous opportunity," Boucher said during the course of a press conference at the Foreign Press Center in Washington.
"The problems of Afghanistan are problems for the region, but the opportunities of Afghanistan are strategic and historic opportunities for the region as well, and we work on it all", he observed.
"For Afghanistan to open up, as an open nation, a trading nation, a nation with good relations all around, really presents everybody in the region with a new strategic opportunity," he said.
"Everybody from India, with a potential new source of energy and a place to export to; to Pakistan, which becomes a logical port and hub for a lot of this trade; Afghanistan, which becomes a transit point and contributor to the trade; or Central Asia which, in addition to their ties to Russia, China, Europe, gets to open up another set of export routes and avenues," Boucher said.
At the same time, he conceded problems of Afghanistan would be troublesome for the entire region too. Afghanistan's problems such as terrorism and narcotics are very much of concern to the countries of Central Asia.
"So we're working with them on how to control the problems, how to deal with terrorism, how to deal with better control of borders, how to deal with narcotics flow, working together at the center that is being organized in Almaty on sharing information on narcotics trafficking so we can stop it better," he said.
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Source: HighBeam Research, AFGHANISTAN VITAL FOR SOUTH-CENTRAL ASIA: US OFFICIAL.