Hopes for peace in Afghanistan are better than they have been in many years, despite a grave humanitarian crisis and persistent violence, a senior United Nations official said Friday.
The UN’s humanitarian chief in the country, Toby Lanzer, told reporters that even though some 3.6 million people are “one step away from famine” and the worst drought in decades has devastated crops, the situation was not entirely bleak.
“Despite all of this, there are new-found opportunities in Afghanistan, and there are very well-founded hopes for peace,” Lanzer said in Geneva, ahead of an international conference on Afghanistan in the Swiss city next week.
“It sounds like a paradox, but there are better opportunities today then there have been in many years for Afghanistan,” he added.
Lanzer did not…
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