A video teleconference live from Brussels

Reconstructing Afghanistan

Restoring the missing link: private sector investment

October 6, 2008

The Atlantic Council of the United States

Brussels panel moderated by Giles Merrit, Security and Defence Agenda

Jamelle McCambell, SSR Coordinator, US Delegation to NATO

Urszula Gacek, MEP and member, Delegation on relations with Afghanistan

Matthew Lodge, Head, Afghanistan Group, British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)

Washington panel moderated by Jim Townsend, Atlantic Council of the United Sates

Agmal Ghami, chairman of Afghan-American Chamber of Commerce

Robert Schoellhammer, Deputy Resident Director, Asian Development Bank

James Sosnicky private company investment

Problems of reconstuction of Afghanistan:

Lack of coordination

Lack of Trust

Photos by Natalia Kouzmina

Orpheus and Lyra