(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-04-09 09:04

WASHINGTON -- The United States is considering to pledge almost $four billion in additional aid for Afghanistan at an international donors conference to be held in Paris on June 14, local media reported Tuesday.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is likely to attend the conference, an unidentified senior government official was quoted as reporting.

France, which is to host the international meeting with Germany, has set a broad goal of raising $12 billion and $15 billion to fund Afghan reconstruction projects through 2014. The United States hopes to contribute a minimum of 25 percent of that total, the official said.

International donors reportedly have pledged about $32.7 billion in reconstruction funds for Afghanistan since 2001, of which $21 billion has come from the United States.

In a NATO summit last week, France and some NATO member states agreed to deploy more troops to Afghanistan to curb increasing Taliban-linked violence.