State Department Spokesman Kelly said a stable and prosperous Afghanistan is in the interests of the international community, including Japan.

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

Grybauskaite would inherit leadership of a country that was long considered more stable than its Baltic neighbors.

VOA: standard.2009.05.17

that rather than helping build a stable Afghanistan capable of governing itself, what they describe as an escalation of the U.S.presence may actually harm U.S.security.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

The vote,which has been postponed several times since 2005, is an attempt to find a lasting political solution to nearly a decade of internal conflict in the once stable West African nation.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

"We cannot build a stable global economy when hundreds of millions of workers and families find themselves on the wrong side of globalization, cut off from markets and out of reach of modern technologies."

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

But the political leadership does not want that. "So a part of the strategy is building up those elements in Pakistan that understand that having a stable and peaceful relationship with Afghanistan is actually in Pakistan's national security interest,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.06