Several million people inside and outside Afghanistan are destitute and desperately in need of help.

To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.

The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world.

There is a firm, clear commitment to provide resources and ideas to enable us to organize the Afghans towards starting the process of rehabilitation and reconstruction.

People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.

The third point is that for some time the UN has been talking about helping Afghanistan in the reconstruction of the country but there has never been any real commitment by the international community to provide resources for that.

I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.