AFGHANS SIT AT ROUND TABLE AFTER SIGNING AN UN BROKERED DEAL IN KOENIGSWINTER, 2001-12-05 (photo)

Afghan delegations sit at a round table after the official signing ceremony of an U.N. brokered Afghanistan deal at the German government guesthouse Petersberg in Koenigswinter near Bonn December 5, 2001. Afghan rivals struck a landmark accord on Wednesday to set aside two decades of war and form a post-Taliban government led by Pashtun chief Hamid Karzai to steer their shattered nation towards democracy. The U.N. brokered deal, reached before dawn on the ninth day of gruelling talks, creates a government with 30 members reflecting Afghanistan's ethnic diversity to rule for about six months until a Loya Jirga, or traditional assembly, is held. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski REUTERS WR/JOH