Downing Street Says » Afghanistan

» Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Afghanistan

Asked whether the Foreign Secretary would be raising the subject of Afghanistan while touring Europe, the PMS replied that the tour was very much focussed on Copenhagen.

Asked how concerned the Prime Minister was that a quarter of the votes cast in the Afghan elections could be fraudulent and what effect this could have on the troops on the ground, the PMS said that it had been an important election in Afghanistan and it was important that an international body was overseeing the election process. There were 6000 polling stations open during the election, which was a great credit to the way the election process had been run.

The Prime Minister was pleased that we had an international monitoring body in place and he was being updated on the progress of the elections. In terms of the troops, the Prime Minister had visited Afghanistan a short time ago and he had been able to spend a great deal of time with the troops; he had been impressed with their morale and delighted that he was able to see the new equipment coming into theatre.

No Comments »

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post.

Post a public comment

Name (required)
E-mail (required)
(You must give an email address, but it will not be displayed to the public.)
Website
(You may give your website, and it will be displayed to the public.)

Comments:

This is not a way of contacting the Prime Minister. If you would like to contact the Prime Minister, go to the 10 Downing Street official site.

Privacy note: Shortly after posting, your name and comment will be displayed on the site. This means that people searching for your name on the Internet will be able to find and read your comment.

Original PMOS briefings are © Crown Copyright. Crown Copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen's Printer for Scotland. Click-use licence number C02W0004089. Material is reproduced from the original 10 Downing Street source, but may not be the most up-to-date version of the briefings, which might be revised at the original source. Users should check with the original source in case of revisions. Comments are © Copyright contributors. Everything else is © Copyright Downing Street Says.