The London Conference on Afghanistan was held on 28 January. The purpose of the Conference, which follows the unveiling in December 2009 of President Obama’s revised US strategy towards the conflict, is to develop wider international agreement on measures needed to advance the goal of a stable and secure Afghanistan.
The outcome of the London Conference was on the following morning assessed by a panel of IISS experts, convened by the Afghanistan Security Programme
Chair: Sir Hilary Synnott, Consulting Senior Fellow
Dr Dana Allin, Senior Fellow for US Foreign Policy and Transatlantic Affairs
Oksana Antonenko, Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia
Dr Mamoun Fandy, Senior Fellow for Gulf Security
Nigel Inkster, Director for Transnational Threats and Political Risk
Col (Retd) Christopher Langton, Senior Fellow for Conflict and Defence Diplomacy
Rahul Roy-Chaudhury, Senior Fellow for South Asia