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Security Council has just returned from Afghanistan, where they say there has been some progress on several fronts, giving them a sense of "cautious optimism" for the future. <br><br><table class="APIMAGE" style="direction: ltr;" align="right" width="175"><tbody><tr><td style=""><img id="||CPIMAGE:585683|" title="Italian Ambassador Giulio Terzi, head of the U.N. mission to Afghanistan, speaking in Kabul, 28 Nov 2008" alt="Italian Ambassador Giulio Terzi, head of the U.N. mission to Afghanistan, speaking in Kabul, 28 Nov 2008" src="/images/200812/ap-Giulio-Terzi-italy-un-afghanistan-175eng4dec08.jpg" border="0" height="208" hspace="2" vspace="2" width="175"></td></tr><tr><td style="" class="imagecaption">Italian Ambassador Giulio Terzi, head of the U.N. mission to Afghanistan, speaking in Kabul, 28 Nov 2008</td></tr></tbody></table>Italian Ambassador Giulio Terzi led the four-day mission last week and briefed the full Security Council. His country is the fifth-largest troop contributor to the NATO-led forces in Afghanistan, with about 2,300 soldiers participating in the 51,000-member force.<br><br>Ambassador Terzi said Afghanistan is facing a difficult security situation, but not a security crisis.<br><br>"This qualification is based on the acknowledgment that the insurgency is concentrated in specific regions and does not offer any alternative model of government, despite the illusion it creates of being omnipresent," he said.<br><br>The ambassador said improved relations with neighboring Pakistan, recent cabinet appointments, a 19 percent reduction in Afghanistan's opium cultivation and the registration of nearly two million Afghans in the first two phases of the voter registration project were reasons to be cautiously optimistic about the country's future.<br><br><table class="APIMAGE" style="direction: ltr;" align="right" width="190"><tbody><tr><td style=""><img id="||CPIMAGE:539629|" alt="Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai (File)" title="Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai (File)" src="/images/200812/afp_afghanistan_hamid_karzai_30sep08_190.jpg" border="0" height="190" hspace="2" vspace="2" width="190"></td></tr><tr><td style="" class="imagecaption">Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai (File)</td></tr></tbody></table>On the subject of Afghan peace talks, Ambassador Terzi said there is growing national support for President Hamid Karzai's position that any talks with the Taliban be based on their renunciation of violence and acceptance of the Afghan constitution.<br><br>"On national reconciliation, we noted an increasing consensus among Afghan interlocutors on the concept that any dialogue with anti-government elements must be conducted by the Afghan authorities from a position of strength and that the renunciation of violence and respect for the Afghan constitution must constitute the red lines of any negotiation," he said.<br><br>He added that negotiations must be a complement to the fight against terrorism, not an alternative. And the reconciliation process must lead to democratization, not to an increased influence of Taliban ideology on Afghan society. <br><br>Ambassador Terzi said the impact of the conflict on civilians is an issue of particular concern to the Security Council and was the subject of in-depth discussions during the visit. He said insurgents cause most casualties and that the NATO-led international force is making every effort to avoid such incidents.<br><br>While in Afghanistan, the mission visited the capital, Kabul, as well as the northwestern province of Herat. 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