At the conference. i m very concerned, first of all for the girls of afghanistan. you saw the disappointment, the extraordinary frustration i think also that any parent would feel when such a decision is taken, but also the timing is very regrettable. we are convening the world in a few days time in a pledging conference to support the people of afghanistan and i think a decision such as not going forward on reopening secondary education for girls sends an extremely problematic signal to the international community. i think afghanistan faces the risk with all the other events in the world right now to essentially be a country from which international partners will simply turn away, and that is a high risk because the a0 million people of afghanistan still have to survive here. but the international community may simply say the conditions for working on afghanistan are not available to us and therefore we will not bring additionalfunding here. that would be an extraordinary setback and ....