Afghanistan's nominal president, Mr Burhanuddin Rabbani, said today that foreign powers had imposed a new interim government on the war-shattered country.
"We hope this will be the last time that foreign countries interfere in Afghanistan's affairs," he told a news conference.
"When we sent the delegation to the Bonn conference, we did not send them to sign an agreement, we just sent them to discuss and negotiate," he said of talks that produced a power-sharing deal signed by Mr Rabbani's Northern Alliance and other factions.
They signed the agreement just because they were pressured by the international community, Mr Rabbani, 61, declared.
He said he himself had proposed ethnic Pashtun tribal leader Hamid Karzai, who will head the interim government, but said he had concerns about other members of the new cabinet and had wanted Karzai to appoint his own ministers inside Afghanistan.
