PETER GALBRAITH TO SPEAK ON AFGHANISTAN

     In September 2009, Galbraith was recalled from his position as UN Deputy

Special Representative to Afghanistan by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon over his disagreements with superiors regarding the fraud that occurred in the

August 20 Presidential elections in that country. According to Galbraith in an October 4 Washington Post column, “… the fraud was a fact that the United Nations had to acknowledge or risk losing its credibility with the many Afghans who did not support President Hamid Karzai.”

     Galbraith will talk about the election and discuss the U.S. future in our “other war.”  Peter W. Galbraith is a former US Ambassador to Croatia, and a Senior Diplomatic Fellow at the Center for Arms Control. He is a principal at the Windham Resources  roup, which has worked in Iraq. He was the deputy special representative of the secretary-general of the United Nations in Afghanistan from June 1 to Oct. 1. His many articles and publications include an October 27, 2009 op-ed piece for the New York Times,

"Afghanistan Votes, the U.N. Dithers" and his most recent book is, Unintended Consequences: How War in Iraq Strengthened America's Enemies, published in 2008.

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