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Bush asks alliance to be ‘good neighbor’
Wednesday, November 14, 2001
By Edith M. Lederer / The Associated Press

“Kabul should remain as a demilitarized city,” Pakistan’s president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, said in Istanbul.

UNITED NATIONS -- AP
The United Nations called Tuesday for a two-year transitional government for Afghanistan backed by a multinational security force, while world leaders said the world body should have a leading role in the war-ravaged nation’s peace process.

Lakhdar Brahimi, the top U.N. envoy for Afghanistan, told the U.N. Security Council that a plan to bring Afghanistan’s many ethnic and tribal groups together should be completed “as early as humanly possible.”

As Northern Alliance soldiers replaced fleeing Taliban forces in the capital, Kabul, on Tuesday, there was concern the speed of the military campaign was outpacing U.N.-led diplomatic efforts to get a transitional government installed. Many countries cautioned the Northern Alliance not to repeat the violence that wracked Kabul during their previous rule.

“We need a U.N. presence there as soon as possible,” British Prime Minister Tony Blair said in London.
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