The Professional Services Council urged Congress to preserve
development assistance for Afghanistan during the 2014 appropriations process,
in a May 6 letter to key legislators.
PSC asked that key development assistance accounts be
maintained at levels necessary to build on and sustain the successes of the investments
that the U.S. government has already made in Afghanistan over the last decade.
“Precipitous reductions in development assistance would put
those hard-won gains at risk and hinder achievement of our nation’s long term
diplomatic, security and economic goals in the region,” PSC President and CEO Stan
Soloway said in the letter. “The trajectory of development success in key
sectors—health, education, economic growth, and women’s empowerment—clearly
points to irreversible progress towards our goals in Afghanistan if we maintain
a sufficient level of effort.”
Read the letter here.
