Examples please Carol,

On the improvement of the lot of women in Afghanistan, your original contention was that subsequent to the fall of the Taliban things had not changed.

I challenged that saying that things had improved albeit slightly. I gave you examples in areas where the international organisations operate freely - not one of those examples were proven by you or anyone else to be wrong.

You did however counter that in the rest of Afghanistan things had not got better, that of course is true, and I commented that things do not change over-night. Your example relating to threats to parents not to send their daughters to school, I think it was in Khandahar - more or less proved my point - under the Taliban there would have been no question of girls being allowed to go to school, the option was just not there, it didn't exist - it does now. That to me is an improvement.

At this point someone else came in saying that part of the job of the assisting international security forces were actively pursuing programmes directed at humanitarian aid and other community projects. You questioned this and the person promised to PM you on the source material - after that we heard no more about it.

On Israeli-Palestinian agreements/obligations fulfilled I promised you a reply and you will get one.