The Berlin conference was held on March 31, 2004 in Berlin,Germany. The conference was co-chaired by the UNand the Government of Afghanistan, Federal Government of Germany and Government of Japan.
This Conference had three major aims: (1) Renewal of commitments for reconstruction funds; (2) long-term commitments from the International Community for continued support to Afghanistan; and (3) concrete planning for the post-Bonn phase of reconstruction. The conference reaffirmed the need to boost Afghanistan's fragile reconstruction efforts, improve security conditions to promote peaceful presidential election in 2004 and the parliamentary and provincial elections of 2005, and furthermore to clamp down on the burgeoning opium trade.
The following were the major outcomes of the conference: (a) GoIRA agreed on a development framework entitled “Securing Afghanistan’s Future (SAF)”, (b) NATO committed to expand ISAF's mission by establishing five additional Provincial Reconstruction Teams by the of Summer 2004 and further PRTs thereafter; and c)ISAF agreed to assist in securing the conduct of elections.
At the end of the conference, multiyear pledges were made for the reconstruction and development of Afghanistan totaling USD 8.2 billion for the three years from March 2004 to March 2007. But this amount included earlier commitments and thus new confirmed commitments amounted only to USD 5.6 billion
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