International Conference on Afghanistan, Bonn (2001)

After Operation Enduring Freedom in which the Taliban government was toppled in Afghanistan, in December 2001, the German city of Bonn hosted a conference of Afghan leaders at Hotel Petersberg, to choose the leader of an Afghan Interim Authority – widely known as the Bonn Conference.[1] The Conference chose Hamid Karzai, who was subsequently elected President in 2004. Karzai subsequently appointed many of the anti-Taliban allies and regional leaders to senior posts within the interim government, or to senior posts in the Provincial governments.

Hotel Petersberg, site of the 2001 International Conference on Afghanistan

Memorial of the conference in Königswinter

Signatories to the Bonn Conference

Signatories to the Bonn Conference

signatory	appointment	notes
Mr. Sayed Hussein Anwari	Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock 2001-2004
Mr. Hedayat Amin Arsala	Vice President 2001–2004	Member of the Pashtun ethnic group. Attended University in the United States, and worked at the World Bank.
Mr. Sayed Hamed Gailani
Mr. Rahmatullah Mousa Ghazi
Engineer Abdul Hakim	Ministry of Communications (Afghanistan) 2001–2002	Tajik ethnic group.
Mr. Houmayoun Jareer
Mr. Abbas Karimi
Mr. Sayed Mustafa Kazemi	Minister of Commerce 2001-2004?
Dr. Azizullah Ludin
Mr. Ahmad Wali Massoud
Mr. Hafizullah Asif Mohseni		Son of Muhammad Asif Muhsini
Prof. Mohammad Ishaq Nadiri	Senior Economic Advisor to President Karzai	Currently Jay Gould Professor of Economics at New York University.
Mr. Mohammad Natiqi		Former Afghanistan Commerce Minister.
Mr. Aref Noorzay
Mr. Yunus Qanuni	Interior Minister	A member of Afghanistan's Tajik ethnic group.
Dr. Zalmai Rassoul	Minister of Civil Aviation 2002-? Minister of Foreign Affairs 2010-2013
Mr. Mirwais Sadiq
Dr. Mohammad Jalil Shams	Economic minister 2006-2009
Professor Abdul Satar Sirat
Mr. Humayun Tandar
General Abdul Rahim Wardak	Deputy Minister of Defense	Minister of Defense following the election of 2004 until 2012.
Mr. Azizullah Wasifi	Served under Zahir Shah and Sardar Daud as governor of Nangarhar province and agriculture minister respectively.
Mr. Pacha Khan Zadran	Governor of Paktia	Fought with other regional militia leaders, replaced in early 2002. Became a wanted man in 2003. Currently a member of the National Assembly.
Mr. Lakhdar Brahimi		Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan The United Nations witness to the document

See also

• List of international conferences on Afghanistan
• Politics of Afghanistan
• International Conference on Afghanistan, Bonn (2011)

External links

The Guardian: The new Afghan administration

References

1. "AGREEMENT ON PROVISIONAL ARRANGEMENTS IN AFGHANISTAN PENDING THE RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF PERMANENT GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS". United Nations. 2001-12-05. Retrieved 2009-06-19.