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David Miliband on the "Systems Failure" in the World's Crisis Zones

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Is There Any Difference in Your Approach to Afghanistan?

The economy is simply not functioning in afghanistan. The banking system is not functioning. It doesn't have liquidity. Salaries of public servants are not being paid. And i'm afraid that while the exemptions from the sanction regime for humanitarian work are welcome, they don't provide the full scale of an answer. That's the only way to put it. We haven't yet seen big benefit of that on the ground.

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