Delegates to U.N.-led talks in Bonn, Germany on the formation of the post-Taliban future of Afghanistan today announced a landmark accord creating a process leading to a permanent Afghan enfranchising most of the war-torn country's native ethnic groups, regions and perhaps most significantly, women.

Details of the accord reached at Bonn include:

• The interim government will officially be established on December 22.
• The government will include 29 members, must reflect the ethnic diversity of Afghanistan.
• Afghan tribal leader and anti-Taliban fighter Hamid Karzai will lead the interim government as a representative of the Pashtuns, Afghanistan's largest ethnic group.
• The interim government's rule will not extend beyond six months, when a Loya Jigra, or grand assembly will be held to create a permanent government. A Loya Jigra is roughly analogous to America's Constitutional Convention.
• No member of the interim government will be allowed to take part in selection of delegates to the Loya Jigra.
• The Loya Jigra is assigned to appoint an extended interim government to serve for 18 months or until a new constitution can be created and elections held.
• The Security Council of the U.N. will be asked to assign a multinational peacekeeping force to the Afghan capital of Kabul during the rule of the interim governments and Loya Jigra.
• The resulting Afghan government must include at least two women in cabinet-level positions.

The most powerful posts in the interim government, the ministries of defense, foreign affairs and interior, will be headed by Tajik members of the Northern Alliance representing northern Afghanistan's Panjsher Valley.

While the Northern Alliance currently controls the Afghan capital at Kabul, Alliance leader and former president Burhanuddin Rabbani was not assigned a role in the interim government.

Groups participating in the Bonn negotiations included the Northern Alliance, the "Peshawar Group," representing native Afghan refugees who fled to Pakistan, the "Rome Delegation," representing former king Zahir Shah and the "Cyprus Group," representing a group of Afghan exiles backed by Iran.

The constitution created by the Loya Jiga will be the sixth Afghan constitution since 1923. (Source: Afghanistan Online - http://www.afghan-web.com/)

• Constitution of 1923 
• Constitution of 1963 
• Constitution of 1976 
• Constitution of 1987 
• Constitution of 1990