On Tuesday, Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski will attend the International Conference on Afghanistan in Kabul where he will discuss a plan that involves a slow turnover of military responsibility to Afghanistan. He will be joined by other foreign ministers who are involved in stability and reconstruction missions in Afghanistan.

At the Kabul Conference the Afghan government wants to established a plan of action that will allow the country to step away from international assistance and begin to function independently.

Ashraf Ghani, conference organizer and a former Afghan presidential candidate, explained to AFP in an interview that “the conference has two major goals – one is to demonstrate Afghan political will and a concrete program of action. The second is to ask for realignment of the assistance so generously provided by the international community, to achieve our common objectives of a stable, secure and democratic Afghanistan.”

Polish involvement in Afghanistan is expected to change from stabilization to more training-advisory missions. With this transition, Poland plans to increase its involvement in training the Afghan Police and Army as well as appoint more civilians who are knowledgeable about development assistance.

Poland is also aiding in the reconstruction and modernization of the Ghazni province.

Each year Poland allocates over $12 million dollars to Polish Development Assistance to stimulate the development of Afghanistan’s civil society and democratic institutions.