Donor countries, government agencies and aid groups are to meet at an Afghan security conference in Tokyo next month to thrash out burning security issues, including plans for former combatants.
"Former combatants have been returning to violence in every country where there has been a civil war, and this is also an issue in Afghanistan," Quentier said on Wednesday. "This is something we will be looking at."
Of the 50,000 former combatants who have joined the disarmament project, 75 percent have found no sustainable income, she said.
One of those who has succeeded is Ahmed Ferdin, a 25-year-old who fought under slain anti-Taliban leader Ahmed Shah Massood and launched raids on the toppled regime's forces from the same mountains where Taliban remnants now hide.
"We had to give up our weapons because we are no longer fighting against foreign countries, like the Russians, and have no civil war," said Ferdin, who employs four workers at a tailoring shop he has opened in Herat.
"But owning this shop is 100 percent better than before because we don't like to fight," he said.
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