The international community still had scope to help the Afghan army and in external politics in the region, he added.
The force works with local authorities in the region and external organisations.
"If Latin America were able to take advantage of free trade for its produce, the region's external debt would disappear, " he said.
After I retired from the Park Service as an Assistant Regional Director for External Affairs in the Intermountain Region, I went back to school to learn to be a professional chef.
And obviously this has added economic and financial costs due to the influx, and has further strained the economy that is already under considerable external pressures with an unstable region, a sluggish global economy that is still recovering.
Guillermo Perry, the World Bank's chief economist for Latin America, says Chile is better placed than any other country in the region to absorb external shocks, thanks to its well organised budgetary institutions, prudent fiscal management (a surplus every year since 1989) and tight banking supervision.
African ministries of education welcome the Education First initiative of the UN Secretary General, but note the reported drop in external aid to education in the region in the wake of the global economic downturn.
There is a call for the EU's new External Action Service to make the Black Sea region a priority for its staffing and structure.
But if goods, services, capital, and businessmen begin to circulate freely around the region, the line between internal and external affairs will blur.
Liew: External challenges have often served to draw countries in the region closer together.
External causes play their part in determining the politics of the region, but a part only.
There is certainly a concern that central banks in the region lack the credibility to enforce tough monetary policies without some external constraint.
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