27/01/2011 (Agence Europe) - New Afghan parliament - “An important step”. The resumption of work at the Afghan parliament on Wednesday 26 January marks “an important step in Afghanistan's democratic development of the National Assembly”, declared Catherine Ashton on the same day. The EU representative for foreign affairs said that she was optimistic that the new assembly and government set up after the general election results on 18 September “will do everything they can to ensure...