The report states: UNAMA, the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, the [US] Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), reports by the [US-based] Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and others [laid out] the significant deterioration of the security situation since 2014/15, the shock of the [Taleban] takeover of Kunduz in autumn 2015, the emergen. [...] It was mandated by parliamentary vote on 5 July 2022, based on a joint motion by the three political parties that form the current German government (the Social Democrats, the Greens and the Free Democrats) and the main joint opposition faction of the Christian Democrats and its Bavarian sister, the Social Christian Union (see the website of the German federal parliament, Bundestag here). [...] This twelve-member parliamentarian-only body is mandated to “establish a full picture of the insights, decision-making and actions taken” by the German government and other authorities “between the conclusion of the US-Taleban Doha agreement on 29 February 2020 [which constituted the de 14 The researchers include the former director of the Berghof Foundation that gave technical assistance to the G. [...] The seven parties in the German parliament selected half of the commission members from the ranks of their own MPs17 and also nominated the experts, some of whom 17 The Social Democratic Party and the joint Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union sent three MPs each, the Greens and the Free Democratic Party two each and Die Linke and AfD one each. [...] However, this is still problematic because the majority position of the five parties in the Study 20 Interim report of the German parliament on the Afghan mission Commission affords them, at least theoretically, the opportunity to jointly influence the tone of the final.
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Table of Contents
- _Hlk166664552 6
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- Introduction 4
- Main findings 5
- The institutional framework for Germany’s stocktaking on Afghanistan 14
- The Study Commission 15
- The Investigation Committee 16
- How independent is the Study Commission? 18
- Why so late (and what other reporting was carried out)? 20
- The Foreign Office’s progress reports 21
- The Ministry of Defence’s Briefings 22
- The joint report 23
- Germany’s role in Afghanistan 24
- Diplomacy 25
- The military mission 26
- Police reform 28
- Development and military-to-civilian spending ratios 31
- Shortcomings in the Study Commission’s report 34
- On democratisation 34
- On warlords and militias 36
- On its lead-nation role in police reform 38
- On ‘kinetic operations’ and civilian casualties 39
- On the economy and development 42
- On the ‘knowledge gap’ 43
- Conclusions 46
- What next? 50
