Senator Biden Statement on Administration’s Announcement of Aid to Afghanistan

June 12, 2008 -- Washington, DC – Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-DE) issued the following statement today after the Administration announced it will provide $10.2 billion in aid to Afghanistan:

“This is a good start – but only a start. We have to remember that one-third of the promised funds have already been delivered by Congress.

As for the remainder, the breakdown of how the funds are distributed and allocated is key: Will there be a genuine increase in development aid and will it actually reach the Afghan people?

Will the security aid actually be spent improving the police and army? Or will it be siphoned off – as has so often been the case – by well-connected contractors? I welcome this news, but the devil is always in the details.”

Source: Senator Joe Biden

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