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<strong>Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani on Saturday said the international community has kept the country&#39;s citizens away from their fundamental rights of peace during the last four decades, reiterating that the people now want permanent and dignified peace.</strong></p>
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Addressing a ceremony on Armed Forces Day, Ghani said Afghan security forces have played a prominent role in fighting international terrorism and that they can protect the values the country has achieved over the last 20 years, Tolo news reported.<br />
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Referring to his recent address to the UN Security Council, Ghani said: &quot;My main sentence was that for the last 40 years, the international community has kept a massive nation away from their fundamental right which is peace and this is unacceptable.&quot;<br />
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&quot;We want peace and we want dignified peace and a peace that is ensured by the power of our security and defense forces and with the will of the people. This peace will come,&quot; he said.<br />
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Ghani said the violence must end and that there should be no more bloodshed and no one should remain deprived of education anymore.<br />
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He added that Afghans will decide on the next president and the next government.<br />
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&quot;The people of Afghanistan have elected their government and president and they will elect the next president of Afghanistan,&quot; Ghani added.<br />
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&quot;It is the right of the nation and the security and defense forces will prove that change will be legal and based on the nation&#39;s will; otherwise, the tenure of the Republic is clear.&quot;<br />
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He said that the Afghan security and defense forces are conducting over 90 per cent of counterterrorism operations.<br />
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&quot;Today&#39;s Afghanistan is not the one it was in the past, the one that was protected by others. Today, you are safeguarding it. We are very close to self-reliance,&quot; he said.</p>
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<em>(IANS)</em></p>
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