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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/kabul-safer-than-uk-clarified.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="A Nato official has clarified his comments about Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, being safer than London, Glasgow or New York" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/min-kabul-safer-than-uk-clarified.jpg" alt="A Nato official has clarified his comments about Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, being safer than London, Glasgow or New York"/></a></p>
<p>Nato&#8217;s top civilian representative in Afghanistan has moved to clarify comments he made suggesting Kabul was safer than parts of London or Glasgow.</p>
<p>Mark Sedwill, senior civilian representative for Nato, had told youngsters&#8217; news programme CBBC Newsround: &#8220;Here and in Kabul and the other big cities (in Afghanistan) actually there are very few of those bombs.</p>
<p>&#8220;The children are probably safer here than they would be in London, New York or Glasgow or many other cities.&#8221;</p>
<p>But he has now sought to distance himself from the comments, saying: &#8220;Any comment you have to clarify obviously wasn&#8217;t very well put and the comparison I made with western cities distracted attention from the important point I was seeking to make.</p>
<p>&#8220;I was trying to explain to an audience of British children how uneven violence is across Afghanistan.</p>
<p>&#8220;Half the insurgent violence takes place in 10 of the 365 districts and, in those places, children are too often the victims of IEDs and other dangers.</p>
<p>&#8220;But, in cities like Kabul where security has improved, the total levels of violence, including criminal violence, are comparable to those which many western children would experience.</p>
<p>&#8220;For most Afghans, the biggest challenges are from poverty &#8211; the absence of clean water, open sewers, malnutrition, disease &#8211; and many more children are at risk from those problems than from the insurgency.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Sedwill&#8217;s initial comments provoked an angry reaction from critics.</p>
<p>A Glasgow City Council spokesman said the official was &#8220;wrong&#8221; and Justin Forsyth, chief executive of Save the Children, said his comments were &#8220;misleading&#8221;.</p>
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