WASHINGTON (Pajhwok): The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday unanimously extended its mission in Afghanistan for another year.
As a result, the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan -- called UNAMA for short -- will be in the country at least till March 17, 2017, unless further extended.
“In 2016, Afghanistan is being as severely tested as it was in 2015, by the task of managing its difficult transition with its interrelated political, economic and security challenges,” said the UNAMA head.
In his address to the Security Council . . .
