KABUL: (MEP) – Chaired by President Karzai the Council of Ministers was held at Presidential Palace yesterday, to start with, President Hamid Karzai congratulated the victory of the Afghan National Football team at the South Asian matches to the people of Afghanistan especially to the athletes of the country and praised the warm welcome accorded by the people and said that this victory once again led to unity, solidarity and national cohesion of the people of the country, BNA reported.
In order to ensure growth of sports the CM decided that the Football Federation functions as an independent budgetary body and the Ministry of Finance transfer USD one million from the National Olympic Committee to the Football Federation.
Meanwhile, the football sports stadiums of the first degree province are transferred to the football federation so that they are equipped and improved on the basis of international standards.
President Karzai informed the CM about the results of his latest visit to Kyrgyzstan for participation at the 13th Shanghai cooperation’s organization (SCO) summit and the minister of foreign affairs said that leading an Afghan delegation President Karzai visited Kyrgyzstan for participation at the (SCO) where he had meeting with the president of that country and discussed issues pertaining to expansion of relations of bilateral cooperation, building and expansion of transport ways and railway line between the two nations.
The President of Kyrgyzstan proposed a new scheme for linking China, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Iran through railway line which was welcomed as a positive proposal by President Karzai.
Afghanistan attended the (SCO) summit as an observer.
President Karzai address the conference taking up struggle against terrorism, prevention of narcotics smuggling, ensuring of peace and welfare of the country, NATO mission in Afghanistan, presidential and provincial elections and sought their cooperation towards ensuring of cooperation in struggle against narcotics and terrorism after 2014.
The presidents of Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Iran and Tajikistan in their separate meetings with President Karzai expressed their support to the peace process in Afghanistan, struggle against narcotics and terrorism after 2014 and the Iranian President specifically assured the president of cooperation for extension of stay document of Afghanistan refugees in Iran.
The CM also conveyed its sympathies with the families of 23 miners in Samangan who lost their lives due to the collapse of coal mine and wished peace for souls of the martyrs of this incident and ordered the ministry of mines and petroleum to investigate the incident and appraise the presidential palace about the result of the incident.
The CM also instructed the interior ministry to pay the salaries of the local police of Nuristan as soon as possible and investigate along with the attorney general office and the local organs department about the embezzlement of the salaries of the local police and report of their investigation to the presidential office in one week time.
At the end, two international conventions were presented by the minister of foreign affairs which were confirmed by the CM meeting.
