Ashraf Ghani Quotes


We are not a battlefield and we will not allow anyone to use our territory against any of our neighbour, but we will not allow our neighbours to use our territory this way either.


Citations

Ghani, Ashraf. Address to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. SCO Summit, 2015.

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Ashraf Ghani
Ashraf Ghani
  • Born: May 19, 1949
  • Nationality: Afghan
  • Profession: Politician

Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai is an Afghan politician, academic, and economist who is serving as President of Afghanistan. He was first elected on 20 September 2014 and was re-elected in the 28 September 2019 presidential election. He was announced the winner after a protracted process in February 2020 and was sworn in for a second term on 9 March 2020. An anthropologist by education, he previously served as Minister of Finance and the Chancellor of Kabul University.