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Priority 4. Enhance border security, with facilitation of bilateral dialogue between Afghan and Pakistani authorities.
The Canadian objective for border security is that, by 2011, Afghan institutions, in cooperation with Pakistan, will exercise stronger capacity to manage the border and foster economic development in the border area.
This priority links directly to the provision of basic services in Afghanistan, given the massive movement of people and goods that can be enhanced by a more secure border. In this quarter, Canada supported a number of steps in achieving progress toward its 2011 objective.
Canada, Afghanistan and Germany
inaugurate the Border Police
Academy in Kabul.
The new Afghan National Customs Academy, which opened in January, graduated its second class of students in this quarter, bringing the total number of graduates to 93. In addition, the new, Canadian-supported Afghan Border Police Faculty was inaugurated at the National Police Academy in Kabul in June. The Faculty will provide additional training capacity for the Afghan Border Police, particularly for senior ranking officers.
Progress was made in this quarter on the recently announced Afghanistan Pakistan Border Region Prosperity Initiative. Launched at the G8 Foreign Ministers Meeting in March, the initiative aims to facilitate the delivery of targeted projects essential to fostering trade between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Canada continues to work with their national governments, with international financial institutions and with our G8 partners to develop two initial projects: a Jalalabad-Peshawar expressway; and a study to determine the feasibility of a rail link between these two major centres.
