Kandahar is Afghanistan's most unstable region. We have committed $100 million a year for Afghanistan as a whole. As I said in my presentation, it is important to stabilize the Kandahar region so that we can make progress there as visibly as is being done in the rest of Afghanistan. Of course, we continue supporting programs all over Afghanistan, as I said in my presentation, because the rest of Afghanistan must not become unstable while we are focusing on Kandahar.
On December 12th, 2006. See this statement in context.