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". – The simple answer to the very important first question that the honourable Member asked is an unequivocal yes. Not least do we hope that women will be centrally involved in a great deal of our development activity, but there are women in the interim administration. I hope there will be in the transitional administration. Women played a crucial role, let us not forget, in the success of the Bonn talks in December and we will be doing what we can to support the Afghan Ministry of Women's Affairs which will, I hope, be a good example of women managing programmes to help develop society and to help protect the role of women in a society which has abused them for far too long.
The honourable Member asked a question about the specific security of women and young girls. In the light of recent well-publicised events, I wholly understand that. I hope that the overall improvement in the security situation and the increasing grip of the interim authority with our support will help to prevent things like that happening. But after the ferocious talibanisation of Afghan society over the last few years, and given the position of the country where warlordism is still rife, it is going to be some time before we can promote the sort of strong gender policies we would like to see. However, we will do all that we can. I am greatly encouraged by what the honourable Member has said."@en1
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