Actor Jude Law in Afghanistan to push for peace

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KABUL (AFP) — British actor Jude Law called Monday for all parties in Afghanistan's conflict to observe a "Peace Day" on September 21 as part of a global campaign for ceasefires and non-violence.

Law, ambassador for the Peace One Day project set up in 1999 by British filmmaker Jeremy Gilley, was in the war-wracked country to promote its aims and show a film about events that marked the campaign in 2007.

"What we hope to do... is to remind all parties that it is happening and see then what happens through negotiations," Law told a press conference in Kabul.

Talks with elders leading up to Peace Day 2007 allowed health workers to vaccinate 1.4 million Afghan children against polio in areas that had been off-limits as they were under Taliban influence, the...