Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski is on an official visit to Afghanistan to take part in an international conference on rebuilding the country.

The conference, to be attended by foreign ministers of countries engaged in fighting in Afghanistan, will be centered on topics, such as the agenda for the handover of control over security to Afghan forces and takes place on 20 July.

At a January conference held in London, delegates from up to 70 governments and international organizations determined that the handover process to an Afghani leadership would commence this year.

The Tuesday conference comes amid escalated violence in Afghanistan. Two British and two American nationals were killed in a roadside bomb blast Saturday. The explosives are believed to have been planted by the Taliban insurgents.

The Polish head of diplomacy arrived in the country following his tour across Georgia, Armenia and Kazakhstan. He has met with his Afghan counterpart in Kabul, Abdul Haider, whom he awarded the Bene Merito medal, a distinction granted for promoting Poland abroad. Other items on the foreign minister’s agenda include meetings with the ISAF command and intellectual and academic circles in the country.

In the mid-1980s, Sikorski worked as a war correspondent in Afghanistan. (aba/mmj)

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