Going back to the argument about who can be brought into the process, I argued that the national solidarity program is an effort to link the centre to the regions and the local councils to try to unify the country, while at the same time not destroying the centre.
At the present time in Afghanistan--as important as the discussions about local control that are going on in this room--our discussion was that the country should move to a more federal system. In fact, the kinds of differences in the country might mean that the notion of a unitary presidential system should at least be reconsidered if we can get a major constitutional amendment.
That's getting quite romantic for me to put forward, being the hard-nosed realist in this group, but nevertheless there seems to be some possibility here that instead of the local controls being suggested, we may be moving slightly toward a federal kind of issue in the future in Afghanistan. Negotiations on this issue took place this week in Afghanistan.