Engagements
Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister
House of Commons debates, 4 November 2009, 11:30 am
Gordon Brown (Prime Minister, No Department; Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath, Labour)
President Karzai said yesterday at his press conference that he was going to operate a policy in which there would be a clean-up of politics in Afghanistan. We will now have to test him by his words. I think that the first thing that he can do, in his inauguration address, is to signal the changes that he will make in the way that he runs central Government, appoints governors, and deals with the problems with corruption—especially corruption relating to heroin and drugs. It is for President Karzai to show the international community that his Government can have credibility because of the actions that he is prepared to take.