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The meeting, convened by Planning Commission Deputy Chairman K C Pant, was attended among others by officials of the Construction Industry Development Council (CIDC), United Nations Development Project (UNDP), Asian Development Bank, World Bank and external affairs ministry officials, including S K Lambah, India's special envoy to Afghanistan.
Describing the meeting as a 'preliminary one', Pant, who is also ex-officio chairman of the CIDC, told reporters that the next course of action would be decided after the return of Lambah from Bonn, where Afghan groups, except the Taleban, would debate on the future of that country.
Pant made it clear that the meeting was merely to facilitate and bring together people who could contribute to reconstruction activity in war-ravaged Afghanistan.
He made it clear that any reconstruction activity would commence only after a broad-based government was established in Afghanistan.
Pant also said the World Bank, along with the UNDP and Asian Development Bank, would co-host a major conference focusing on reconstruction of Afghanistan from November 27-29 in Islamabad in which all donor members of these agencies would participate.
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